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The Past as Present By Romila Thapar

Book Name: The Past as Present

Writer: Romila Thapar

On 15 August 1947, I was in the most recent year of school in Pune. The

whole school, the guardians of the understudies, and other well-wishers

were welcomed for the celebration. The chief had disclosed to me that I

would need to bring down the UnionJack, raise the Indian banner in its

place, plant a sapling, and deliver a short discourse. I had spent restless

evenings thinking about what I should state in my short discourse and was

scared of tending to a public crowd—an inconvenience that I have always

had. Planting the sapling was enjoyable. Raising the Indian banner was an

intensely emotional second, given that so much political dramatization had

been played out in Pune during the 1940s and a few of us had made it a

highlight surge from school in the late evening to go to Gandhiji’s petition

gatherings during periods when he was out of jail. However, the hardest

was the discourse and the more I counseled my friends, educators, and

guardians, the more confounded I became.

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