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Midnight. The clock, as if on cue, let out a single, reluctant tick . From the wireless, the voice of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru crackled through the static:

Swathanthryam, they learned that night, was not a flag unfurled in Delhi. It was a father’s forgiveness at midnight, on a rain-soaked veranda, under a sky that no longer belonged to any empire. swathanthryam ardharathriyil

Unni did not flinch. “I went to find a nation where a boy from this island could stand tall. Not crawl. I went to prison for that. I watched friends die of cholera in a camp in Singapore for that. The freedom we got is bruised. It is bleeding. But it is ours.” Midnight