When the nation was celebrating its freedom on August 15, 1947, Malayala Manorama was in chains. The newspaper was paying a heavy price for being true to the spirit of freedom of expression - the paper staying shut for nine long years. From 1938 to 1947, Manorama had to stop functioning as Diwan Sir C P Ramaswami Aiyar proscribed the publication for reporting on police firings and atrocities. As a result, we couldn't celebrate the historic moment, perhaps one of the greatest in world history, with the deserving vigour. However, in 2007, Malayala Manorama published an imaginary independence day page... Read More

Missing those good old times #Throwback #IndianDiaries#BacktoLondon

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large. #IndoPak #Bros4ever

After slogans, it's time for some inspiring quotes, I guess. Here's my most favourite - How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refused to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done. – Mahatma Gandhi. Now what's yours?

#IndianIndependence #TrystWithDestiny

Remembering Tagore's lines on this auspicious occasion:
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action- Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

Bappuji refuse to celebrate the Indian Independence until there is an end to the bloodshed. When he was in Noakhali. #Noakhali #IndiaRiots #RaiseYourVoice

Sharing a video of the day India got independence. We believe this is a precious piece of history for the generations to cherish. #TrystWithDestiny #IndianIndependence

Trains to Lahore #Partition #IndianIndependence

Two Dominions Are born

@IllingworthCartoons

It's time to celebrate #IndianIndependence #BharatMata#QuitIndia

Historic moment for Indians! Indian tricolour for the first time at India Gate.