India's independence and evolution
Indian school girls dressed in traditional Punjabi outfits hold earthen lamps during an annual prize distribution fuction in Amritsar, in India's northwestern state of Punjab.
Photo by Narinder Nanu /AFP/Getty Images
It's the 60th anniversary of India's independence from Britain. In a recent speech at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, Richard Celeste discussed the changes he's seen in India's democracy.
Celeste is in a unique position to do so. He served as special assistant to the U.S. ambassador to India in 1967. Thirty years later, he returned to India as U.S. ambassador.
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