ocr: The Road From Independence HEY STAND on pink stone Cars queue for VIPs pedestals high above a tan- at the presidential gled garden on Old Delhi's palace in New Delhi northern fringe, three Brit- on Republic Day, an ish viceroys in white marble annual celebration flanking a stone version of of the signing of In- the king-emperor himself, dia's constitution in George V. Wasps buzz around al black nest RS 1950. The constitu- big as a football, tucked into the crook of one tion calls on Indians viceregal elbow. Village dogs skulk through to "transcend" reli- the half-open iron gate, and peacocks r ...
