Happy Birthday, India! Welcome to the arms race. You’ve gone from most enlightend, wise and anchient spiritual civilization to Westernized nuclear power.
Sarcasm aside, I think its great that India is sprinting into modernization. As a nation they have already done a lot to stimulate a global economy. I guess the standoff with Pakistan is inevitable.
“Gandhi’s dream of a free India will only be fully realized when we banish poverty from our midst,” Singh told a crowd of thousands of dignitaries and schoolchildren dressed in the orange, white and green of the Indian flag, referring to independence leader Mohandas Gandhi. —newstaronline
Security was tight across India for the festivities. Police stepped up security around the Taj Mahal, India’s famed white-marble monument to love, saying there was a specific threat to the site.
p.s. thanks for producing the most beautiful woman in the world:
