As the nation celebrates yet another Independence Day, rediff.com presents five views of freedom from its archives. A panoramic glimpse of what was, and what is to be...

Phillips Talbot: Astrologers discovered the morning of August 15 was inauspicious for transfer of power'

Poornam Viswanathan: 'When Nehru himself cried while speaking, what about an ordinary news reader like me?'

Colonel Lakshmi Sahgal: 'The people in charge of this country are an ambitious, self-serving bunch of tired old men'

Sarojini Naidu: 'It is in vain to expect justice from a race so blind with power'

Rajni Kothari: A new beginning

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