https://www.pitara.com/tags/history-of-india/Recent content in History of India on Pitara Kids NetworkHugoen-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 21:46:31 +0530https://www.pitara.com/non-fiction-for-kids/features-for-kids/the-day-mother-raised-the-flag/Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:58:58 +0000https://www.pitara.com/non-fiction-for-kids/features-for-kids/the-day-mother-raised-the-flag/<p>On August 15, at the stroke of midnight, the Indian flag replaced the Union Jack of the British Empire. And millions of Indians went to sleep in a state of excitement. For, they would literally wake up in a free country. Among them was a five-year-old girl called Amrita Rangasami. She lived with four siblings and a young widowed mother, in a bylane of Madras (now Chennai).</p> <p>Sixty-year-old Amrita, a senior journalist and scholar, remembers the day clearly, as if it were yesterday.</p>