Good Morning India, Respected Principal, Mam, honorable chief guest, teachers and my dear friends. Today on 15th August 2013 India is celebrating its 67th Independence day and we are proud to say that we earned our freedom 67 year back, which was by an act passed by the British parliament and we were the first to get our independence through the act which is a mark of respect.
At the midnight hour of August 14, 1947, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru rose to addressed the nation made his maiden speech in New Delhi, “When the world sleep, India will wake to life and freedom. Now India is the largest democracy of the world. Last year our former School Captain Shivansh Khattari proudly called our nation as a sovereign, Socialist, Secular Democratic, Republic, and we all are really proud of that. But let me remind you all that winning Independent was not the end of our struggle, it was just the beginning of our greatest challenge and that was to make us prosperous.
As a citizen of India, we are proud of its golden past. We had one of the oldest and richest civilization of the world. Today we not only need to be proud of our glorious past but also work to make our present and future better than our past .We need to make our self so capable that we can praise its present and this can be only done, when we work hard for it. And we can only work hard, if we have a feeling of patriotism & nationalism in our heart. Patriotism is a very deep and meaningful word, and its meaning changes according to the demand of time. During pre Independence time, Patriotism meant to get out of our houses and fight against foreign rule, whereas today a true patriot is that person who gives best of his services in the development, progress and upliftment of his nation as the best human resource.
When a solders risk his life at the battle field. It makes a country feel proud, when, a leader work for the development of nation, it makes a county proud, when an