Photo: Facebook / India in Auckland
The recent government announcement that free trade agreement negotiations with India had been concluded hogged much of the limelight at Republic Day celebrations in Auckland on Monday.
On 26 January, 1950, the South Asian nation became a republic and adopted its constitution after gaining independence in August 1947 and ending centuries of British colonial rule.
The day is marked in India, and by the Indian diaspora all over the world, by celebrating the
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