appointed a drafting committee under Motilal Nehru to draw up a constitution for India. The Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress asked the British government to accord dominion status to India by December 1929‚ or a countrywide civil disobedience movement would be launched. By 1929‚ however‚ in the midst of rising political discontent and increasingly violent regional movements‚ the call for complete independence from Britain began to find increasing grounds within the Congress leadership
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Short Essay on 15th August – The Independence Day of India By Devansha on November 30‚ 2011 in Essays The great dream of our freedom fighters‚ nationalists‚ and revolutionaries was realized on 15th Aug. 1947‚ when India became free and independent. It was an epoch-making event of great significance‚ which ushered in an era of liberty‚ self-rule and prosperity for our nation. Since then 15th Aug.‚ has been celebrated all over India as our Independence Day. It is a national festival-a day to remember
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How India treats its women ------------------------------------------------- Rape scandal * People have called her Braveheart‚ Fearless and India’s Daughter‚ among other things‚ and sent up a billion prayers for a speedy recovery. When the unidentified woman died in a Singapore hospital early on Saturday‚ the victim of a savage rape on a moving bus in the capital‚ Delhi‚ it was time again‚ many said‚ to ask: why does India treat its women so badly? Female foetuses are aborted and baby
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As the Independence Day is approaching‚ I am continuously haunted by a question i.e. are we truly free and independent? We have gained freedom from the British rule but what have we done with our independence? It has been 63 years since we have gained independence. We are a free nation now. But still after so many years‚ the question remains the same. We proudly claim that we are independent from a foreign rule but we are still not free from jealousy‚ intolerance and hatred towards our fellow countrymen
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The International courts of arbitration are respectfully requested to declare that:- 1. the only basis for Barotseland becoming part of Zambia on its Independence was the Barotseland Agreement of 1964; 2. This Agreement has ceased to have effect‚ having been breached and repeatedly and finally repudiated by the Government of Zambia which abrogation and repudiation have been accepted by the Barotse National
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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." - Jawaharlal Nehru At the strike of midnight of the August 15‚ 1947‚ India shook off the shackles of British Rule and became free. It was a
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Today we all have gathered here to be witnesses to our 67 prosperous years of Independence. A day so special in the history of India that wouldn’t fail to remind us of the heroic deeds of not just our freedom fighters but the citizens of India. On the eve of Independence our 1st Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru rose to make a speech on Independence Day‚ “ When the world sleeps‚ India will wake to life and freedom.” My dear friends ‚ we are the fortunate ones to be able to breathe this
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“How the ocean got its waves” by Brooklyn Cosgrove Once there was a goddess named Amphitrite‚she was the goddess of the sea‚ and there was a god named Poseidon‚ he was the god of the sea. They lived in Atlantis ‚deep in the Mediterranean Sea. They lived in a castle made of solid gold and had every creature in the ocean worshiped them. Meanwhile in Oia‚ Santorini‚ Greece there lived twin siblings. A girl named Cecily and a boy named Axel. They lived in a white stucco cottage with a blue domed
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Independence Day Of India 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
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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…India discovers herself again." - Jawaharlal Nehru The Independence Day of India is celebrated on the fifteenth of August to commemorate its independence from British rule and its birth as a sovereign nation in 1947 Every year‚ we celebrate our Independence Day with great fervour as well as joy and justifiably
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