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Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot: On the brink of independenceThis is my mother aged 21. It is 1947. India, like my mother, is on the brink of independence.She was on a short holiday in Mussoorie, a typical Indian hill station full of honeymooners and colonials escaping the searing heat of the plains. Elsewhere, the politicking and machinations that led to Indian independence in August of that year must have been in full swing.This is a typical posed shot, one foot deli...

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