Kids dressed up in the colours of the national flag, holding the tricolour, celebrate India's 78th Independence Day in Goregaon on Thursday.

The present and the future: School children participate in a flag-hoisting ceremony with the police in Goregaon.

Kids gather in a Sion society ahead of the flag hoisting ceremony on Independence Day 

Residents participate in the flag-hoisting ceremony at Sion

Mumbai Police personnel participate in the flag-hoisting ceremony in Goregaon

Residents hoist the flag at the Press Enclave in Sion