India's independence and evolution
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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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