![]() ![]() ![]() It is for these reasons that the country remains, for both foreigners and Indians, an astonishingly complex place, one that nobody could ever claim to fully comprehend. Some parts of the country boast GDP per person high enough to put them on par with upper-middle-income countries, while others are more deprived than some of the poorest nations on Earth. India’s 1.4bn people speak nearly two dozen official languages (and hundreds of others), worship every major religion and many smaller ones, and eat a huge variety of local cuisines (there is no such thing as “Indian food”). And it is among the most diverse in the world. Yet while the Indian republic may be young, Indian civilisation is thousands of years old. O N AUGUST 15TH India celebrates the 75th anniversary of its independence from the British. ![]()
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