From country roads to Calcutta, Morgantown can't help but mark India's 75th
MORGANTOWN — It was nearing 12 a.m. on the quite-new day of Aug. 15, 1947, when Jawaharlal Nehru calmly stepped to the podium to deliver a speech, in English, to the Constituent Assembly of India in New Delhi. Make that, the speech. “Long years ago,” he began, “we made a tryst ...