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India Has Come a Long Way Since 1947, But Much Still Needs to Be Done -Virginius Xaxa

-TheWire.in

The need of the hour is to reorient policies built on equity, not only economic, political and social, but also ecological and environmental.

India is completing the 75th year of its independence. It is a moment of celebration and, at the same time, an occasion to remember all those known and unknown who laid down their lives during a long struggle to make India free from the yoke of colonial rule.

It is somewhat strange that the occasion has come about at a time when dark clouds are hovering over the very idea of India that the freedom fighters stood for and the constitution embodies. Here, I look at the road India has travelled since it gained independence on August 15, 1947. I assess major achievements, failures and challenges. It is a personal assessment coloured by my social location and my woven journey that, in many ways, chronicles India’s passage over time.

I was born in a working-class family in the tea estates of North Bengal and grew up in conditions similar to millions of other children from this background. The estates were overwhelmingly owned and managed by the British and workers encountered them in their everyday life. Coolie was the epithet to describe this class, who were all part of the larger colonial agenda of profit and capital accumulation. Their recruitment and uprooting from ancestral land and territory, thousands of miles away, were part of an organised system. Tea estates, located in remote areas, were not within the gaze of the outside world. Workers’ movements were under constant surveillance. They lived in bondage and had no protective rights whatsoever.

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