We are small men

It is meant to come and go without stamps being released, statues being garlanded, the garlanders being photographed. But that is because we are getting out of touch with our history, even recent history. It was on this date, 65 years ago, that Governor General Mountbatten brought forward the earlier plan of transferring power from the proposed date of June 1948 and persuaded Pandit Nehru to broadcast to the nation on the evening of that June 3.

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