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You hoist me twice a year. But I represent 1.4 billion Indians every single day. 🇮🇳 I wasn't created overnight. Long before I flew over the Red Fort, India's flag went through years of evolution, countless designs, and one dream—a free India. In 1921, Pingali Venkayya presented an early design, while Mahatma Gandhi imagined the spinning wheel as a symbol of self-reli...

After months of attending classes online during the COVID pandemic, Manimekalai remembers finally walking back into Pethanayakanur Government High School in Coimbatore district.

The school she returned to looked very different.

Every classroom had been painted to resemble a colourful train coach. Music and celebrations welcomed the students back after months awa...

At three years old, Swara Oza walked into a professional recording studio in Rajkot and sang a lullaby called Hun Taaro Lalo. She has no memory of expecting it to travel anywhere. Two decades later, people her own age tell her they grew up hearing it sung to them as children.

That early, unplanned reach set the tone for a career built almost entirely on instinct, and ...