India's Journey: From Independence to Progress

Independence transformed India from zero to hero in just 77 years and the numbers will shock

you. When Gandhi walked those dusty roads in 1947, we had one university

for every 10 million people. Today we graduate more engineers than any country on Earth.

Back then spinning wheels made our cloth, now our satellites spin around Mars.

The British left us with 16 major languages threatening to divide us forever, instead we became

the world's largest democracy speaking in one voice. From borrowing rice to survive famines

to exporting food globally, from no phones to running Silicon Valley,

from 15% literacy to landing on the moon. Every sunrise over our tricolor reminds