For those of you emitting a disapproving dad grunt at my treatment of the day India gained its hard-won freedom from a public-owned multinational company when my father was 7, let me defend myself by saying that to truly celebrate something like Independence Day, one should tap into its celebratory core, and less into its dutiful, commemorative aspect. Unless you're in school, of course, where a good brainwash is always rejuvenating for nanha munha to be rahi and desh ka sipahi.
