Recent issue of TIME, dedicated to india, raised wave of pride among many indian. Time has been in print for more than a century and brilliantly covered global issues. why its important to see their India special issue is that it been outsider view and not self praised view. today when india is going to complete 60 year of independence and there are thousand of people writing about our achievement, millions more to read and feel proud. contrast to our poor literacy count in 1947.

To see what how far we have come, we should look back. here is the two cover of TIME . While present generation peeping though TIME's current issue, they should also go back to 1947 issue to see what we were.