On the occasion of 75 years of India's Independence, 82-year-old veteran columnist, editor and author Prem Shankar Jha reflects on how the country has fared and where it is going. He says Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed his contempt for Parliament in the most brutal way, contributed to a failed economy with rampant unemployment and growing inequalities, and sought to turn the clock back by creating a crisis of identity for the republic, in an exclusive interview for NewsClick