India Prime Minister Narendra Modi Pledges To Turn India Into A Developed Country As Nation Turns 75

Seventy-five years later, the India of today is almost unrecognizable from that of Nehru’s time.

Since gaining independence, India has built one of the world’s fastest growing economies, is home to some of the world’s richest people, and according to the United Nations, its population will soon surpass China’s as the world’s largest.

But despite the nation’s surging wealth, poverty remains a daily reality for millions of Indians and significant challenges remain for a diverse and growing nation of disparate regions, languages, and faiths.