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Show Als The Salt LakeTribune WORLD Sunday, August3,1997_ 50 Years After Independence, a Tired India Is Hopeful BY DONNA BRYSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW DELHI, India monsoonrains are swee the dust and torpor of s the round, weigh 0" hasIndians err a bout of mental hous The 50th annive pendence from Britain is no time for Saas in Harbans old fereedi fighte s He recalls that whenhe w In those days there was a sense of belonging, of giving to your country,” said Singh, an 80-yearold whostill sometimes wears a dhoti, a wrap of rough white cloth familiar to anyone who has seen pictures of Gandhi leading independence marches. ‘Today, there is nothing to belong to, nothing to give to. Like many of his generation, Singh wasfighting notjust for in- disappointment that I spent 40 years of my life in the struggle to cometo this at the end of mylife,” said Singh, who receives a govern- lution that would close the gapbe- but far away in spirit. Nanda, a biographer of Gandhi and of India’s first prime minis- tween rich and poor. In his opinion, all that happened at mid- night Aug. 14, 1947, was the re- ng — for joining a marcha; placement of aBritish elite with British rule. The grandson anIndian one that continued to interests are motorbikes classes at a technical school. mt ignore the plight of the poor. politics, and Singh doesn’t blame him. mentpension and a housing subsi- dy in recognition ofhis role in the B.R. Nanda’sliving room, with its cool marblefloor and tea service set out for a visitor, is only a few miles from Singh’s one-room apartment in a government-built highrise of crumbling red brick, ter, Jawaharlal Nehru, said that while much remains to be done, India has reasonto feel pride. ish colonizers. “It is a state and a society in whichthere is great diversity, but overarching unity,” Nanda said. “Tt is fragmented in the sense that we have problems — but they are Diverse opinions are only to be expectedin a country as large and varied as India. Nearly 970 million people inhabit this nation roughly a third the size of the United States, stretching from the icy Himalayas to the tropical beaches of Cape Comorin. It is the most populous democracy in the world, with some 600 million voters. But the electorate has become increasingly disgust- Perhaps its greatest accomplishment was forging any nation ed with its leaders aftera series of made to the people of India, none at all out of the myriad peoples of those came about. I feel great brought into one territory by Brit- fice. “All the promises that were 200yearsofBt i celebrates fifty i A 200 f British Ate:neatly India years of independence independence on August 15,1947 Religiousdivisions corruption scandais that reach as high as the prime minister’s of- Sikh: 29% Musiim: Christian: 2% 11% Ethnic divisions ‘Ahmadabad ‘ Draviian ; Mongoloid and «INDIA others 3% 28%4 Bombay mf Hyderabad BANGLADESH ©Be eaeabier a Bangaloree indiafects Area: 222,249 square miles Population: 962,107,694 Pop.density: 779per square mile 250 miles Percentliving in poverty (living — less than f dollar a day): §2.5 Life expectancy:62% Adult literacy: 48% Bayof Bengal Madras. 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