DATE: Monday, August 11, 1997               TAG: 9708110036

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A4   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: FOCUS 
SOURCE: BY DONNA BRYSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS 

DATELINE: NEW DELHI, INDIA                  LENGTH:   26 lines

FOCUS: INDIA AT 50 AS INDIA MARKS ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY, THE COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE REMAIN A NATION OF EXTREMES.

this date.] ILLUSTRATION: ASSOCIATED PRESS

In Bombay on Sunday, a float carries children dressed as freedom

fighters in a parade celebrating India's 50 years of independence.

``All the promises that were made to the people of India, none of

those came about. I feel great disappointment that I spent 40 years

of my life in the struggle to come to this at the end of my life.''

Harbans Singh, left

An Indian freedom fighter against the British KEYWORDS: INDIA ANNIVERSARY

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