India Independence Day

So the other day ago, yesterday in fact, on my first day of classes, I notice there's a row of people wearing green. Then I noticed they were all Indian (Neil, Shifali, Hamsi, etc.). Well it turns out it was India Independence Day (I asked if St. Patrick's Day was moved, but I was wrong). It also turns out only like half of them knew that and wore green for that purpose. Oh yeah, and I was wearing green too. In fact 3 people asked me why everyone was wearing green (before I knew it was India Independence Day).