India at 70 is making the news in Britain. This reflects on British nostalgia for the Empire to some extent, but it also shows the genuine interest and passion people in the West have for India. It also highlights the success of the world’s largest democracy. Few in 1947 expected India to survive. It was seemingly a loose patchwork of nations and tribes, cleaved by violent religious divisions that had claimed the lives of a million. There were and are continued problems with