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Independence day special 15th August 2008 |
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Independence Day
On 15 August 1947, India attained freedom from the British rule. Every year, August
15 is celebrated as the Independence Day in India.
"Where the mind is without fear and the
head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth
of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand
of dead habit;
Where the mind is led
forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action- Into that heaven of freedom,
my father, let my country awake."
-- Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali)
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"Long years ago we made
a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we will redeem our pledge, not
wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight
hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes,
which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when
an age ends and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance ....
We end today a period of ill fortune, and India discovers herself again."
-- Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru(Speech on Indian Independence
Day, 1947).
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