Independence Day
Independence Day India is a Unity in Diversity. All those who seem to have dreams of gaining freedom and prosperity by breaking away from India should look at the two countries in our neighbourhood: Pakistan and Bangladesh. Both were part of India before August 15 1947. Later, the two broke away from one another. Today, one of these two countries is trying to get a foothold, but the other is sinking deeper and deeper into a quagmire. Look at the neighbouring countries again and see if Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Myanmar (Burma), Kampuchia (Kambodia), Laos, etc., are better than India's. Why is India's independence day on August 15? Indian Independence Day was decided by the last Viceroy and first Governor-General of India - Louis Mountbatten. He Chose August 15 since it was the same day that Japan surrendered in 1945 at the end of World War II. (Mountainbatten was a naval officer before his Indian post and was the supreme commander of allied forces in South E