A firework of colors under close police surveillance, January 26 India celebrates its national day and the entry into force of the post-colonial Constitution of India in 1950. With guest of honor this year, an American president for the first time. Barack Obama and his wife Michelle attended the parade in New Delhi along with the Indian president and prime minister, a prime minister who sent the invitation to Washington via Twitter.
The parade, under the supervision of snipers and 15,000 cameras along King Boulevard in New Delhi, stressed the military power of India and its cultural diversity.
The presence of Barack Obama marks a turning point in relations between the two countries: they had deteriorated in 2013 due to a dispute over the fate of an Indian diplomat arrested in New York. And then Indian Prime Minister last year was still persona non grata in the United States, after bloody anti-Muslim riots that in 2002 the state of Gujarat which he then led.
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