years of struggle. On this day we pay tribute to our great freedom fighters like Mahatma Gandhi‚ Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru‚ Bal Gangadhar Tilak‚ Sarojini Naidu and many others who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of our country. It is on this day in 1947 that Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru addressed the constituent assembly at the Parliament‚ delivering his famed‚ eloquent speech‚ Tryst with Destiny announcing India’s freedom at midnight. This announcement brought about a rise in spirits all over the country
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afternoon to you all worthy president‚ secretary‚ learned judges and all my dear friends. Today in this declamation competition the topic I have chosen to declaim is ‘’INDIA OF 21ST CENTURY’’. Awake to freedom‚ long year ago we have made a tryst with the destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge not wholly or not in a full measure but very substantially. At the stroke of this midnight our when the world sleeps‚ india will awake to the life and freedom .A moment comes which comes
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coincided with the partition of India‚ in which the British Indian Empire was divided along religious lines into the Dominions of India and Pakistan; the partition was accompanied by violent riots and mass casualties. On 15 August 1947‚ Jawaharlal Nehru‚ who had become the first Prime Minister of India that day‚ raised the Indian national flag above the Lahore Gate of the Red Fort in Delhi. On each subsequent Independence Day‚ the Prime Minister has raised the flag and given a speech.[2] The holiday
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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
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A moment comes‚ which comes but rarely in history‚ when we step out from the old to the new…India discovers herself again." On the eve of India’s independence‚ Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru famous speech “Tryst with Destiny” marked the beginning of a free India with words symbolizing hope and triumph. 15th August 1947 symbolizes the victory of Indian patriotism which the nation got after uncertain yet brutal struggle from the repression of the British colonialism.and on the the night of 14th august
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old to the new…India discovers herself again." - J.L.Nehru On the eve of India’s independence‚ Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru famous speech “Tryst with Destiny” marked the beginning of a free India with words symbolizing hope and triumph. India got its independence from the clutches of British rule on 15th August 1947. It was this day when India’s tricolor flag was unfolded by Pandit Nehru on the barricades of the Red Fort at Delhi. Each and every patriotic soul watched with excitement and paid tribute
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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.” These are the impressive words of the speech titled‚ “Tryst with Destiny” given by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on August 15‚ 1947. The real struggle for independence of India had begun almost 90 years before in 1857‚ when a group of sepoys mutinied against the East India Company. Nevertheless it needed another 90 years for India to
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Long years ago‚ we made a tryst with destiny‚ and now the time comes when we shall 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 With these words of Pandit Nehru‚ on 15th August at the stroke of the midnight hour India declared itself independent from the British rule. As the Union Jack was being brought down and the Indian tricolor flew up the hopes and aspiration of the Indian
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Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru‚ the “Freedom At Midnight”‚ he quoted : “ Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny‚ and now the time comes when we shall 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.” - unquote. Good Morning to one and all gathered here! As a proud Indian‚ it gives me great sense of feeling to re-iterate these words of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru! From the phase
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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
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