Freedom

What is freedom for us?
Except for the general realisation that we are no longer answerable to someone
who didn't have the same skin colour as us or didn't eat the same food,
has August 15, 1947 brought us much?
How many of us can list the real freedoms – other than that of free speech and expression, that too often restricted by the government and other extra constitutional authorities – that we have gained after Independence? Things that we couldn't do then, that we are doing now? Consider this a survey of sorts.