# India’s 79-Year Nation-Building Record Counters Collapse Predictions

2026-08-15T05:55:53+00:00 | Politics | Indian Opinion Desk

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India’s 79-year record as a modern nation challenges earlier predictions that the country would collapse, NDTV reports in an opinion article by Shashi Tharoor. Tharoor places the period against India’s much older civilisational history, calling it a brief span but an audacious achievement in modern nation-building. The article says young Indians remain impatient for faster progress. It argues that genuine development requires an environment free from communal friction, political polarisation and majoritarian triumphalism. The piece presents India’s endurance as an achievement, while warning that its future will depend on how these tensions are handled.

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- ndtv.com <https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/79-years-later-indias-enduring-answer-to-those-who-had-predicted-its-collapse-11913233#publisher=newsstand>
- ndtv.com <https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/79-years-later-indias-enduring-answer-to-those-who-had-predicted-its-collapse-11913233>

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