Post Independence India

August 1947 was a starting line, not a finish. This section picks up where the freedom struggle stops — a poor, divided, hopeful new country learning to run itself. You'll find the writing of the Constitution and the first elections, the Green Revolution and the five-year plans, the Emergency of 1975 and the economic opening of 1991. It's the India your parents and grandparents actually lived through: the licence raj and the first colour TVs, wars and famines and moon shots. The freedom was won; what to do with it was the harder question, and these stories are about how India kept answering it.