150 years since the first mutiny!

India today celebarated the 150th anniversary of its first mutiny by the sepoy soldiers agaist the british colonials.it was literally the first war of independance and this in turn sowed the seeds of the independance cry that finally got India her much valued freedom.
Today India is the largest democracy in the world and there is no other place in the world where people from different backgrounds with different languages and different traditions all come together in the spirit of democracy to form such a "unique" nation.one can almost say that the indian independance movement actually started the independance movement in the other british colonies as well.once the "jewel in the crown" was lost the whole crown pretty much became meaningless.today India stands proud not just for winning her independance but proud also of the way she won it.
In all of history there has been no nation,by that i mean not a single mation that had ever managed to win a war leave alone a fight by "non violence".
India was the only nation to ever do that and they have every right to be proud of that.the 'non violence'movement is a unique movement as such where a disparate group of people come together and force their issue not by force but by disobedience and when stroked down by those opposing them,they did not strike back in 99% of the cases.
the non violence movement was of course spearheaded by Mahatma Gandhi,the seeds of which were sowed by hin in south africa which were later taken by Nelson Mandela for the anti apartheid movement.it is hard to surmise what the world would have been like without the first mutiny or mahatma ghandhi or the non violence movement.each of those persons as well as event had started the downfall of "the empire that never sets".thank god that the sun has finally set on THAT empire allowing a democratic giant to rise!Jai Hind!