today a period of ill fortune‚ and India discovers herself again." - Jawaharlal Nehru (Speech on Indian Independence Day‚ 1947). The day when India woke up to freedom back in 1947 was a day of great celebration. A country got rid of her foreign yoke and became a sovereign nation‚ she celebrated her sovereignty on this day - the triumph of numerous martyred souls. It was a day of fulfillment‚ it was the day of a new beginning‚ a birth of a nation.On the stroke of midnight‚ a country came into life
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surrounded by India‚ Myanmar and the Bay of Bengal. A republic in south Asia‚ Bangladesh was formerly East Pakistan‚ one of the five provinces into which Pakistan was divided at its creation‚ when Britain’s former Indian Empire was partitioned in August 1947. East Pakistan and the four western provinces were separated by about 1600 km of Indian territory. East Pakistan was formed from the former Indian province of East Bengal and the Sylhet districts of Assam. Although the East was more populous
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Cleansing Excess Pitta from the Body by Shannon Mooney According to Ayurveda‚ health is our natural‚ balanced state. Ayurveda defines the many substances and influences‚ both internal and external‚ that are beneficial and detrimental to our bodies. While avoiding every substance or situation that is unhealthy is nearly impossible in today’s world‚ the wisdom of Ayurveda can boost your understanding of health and support choices that lead to a balanced state of being. Ayurveda offers knowledge to
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The Day Before Independence June 25‚ 1986 was the last day of my childhood. I was 16 years old graduating from high school; the next morning I would be on a train going of to a college to a strange city‚ all by myself…This scenario might sound very appealing and fairly common to an American‚ but for a young girl born and raised in the Soviet Union this situation was scary and challenging. In Belarus (part of the former USSR) families stayed close together. Young people especially girls would go
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On 26 March‚ 1971 the independence of Bangladesh was declared and the Liberation War began. The people of then-East Pakistan took part in this war to liberate Bangladesh from the oppression of military leaders of Pakistan. Independence for Bangladesh was gained through a nine-month civil war against the Pakistani Army‚ which resulted in the loss of about 3 million lives.[2] The Mukti Bahini (Bengali "freedom fighters")‚ with military support from India‚ defeated the Pakistani Army on 16 December
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unity and integrity of our nation. Let us all together take a vow that we will spare no effort to take India to greater heights. In the early hours of the 15th of August‚ 1947‚ when our nation had just become Independent‚ our first Prime Minister‚ Jawaharlal Nehru spoke to the nation and asked us all one important question on the very first day we became a free country: "Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?" Today‚ my fellow citizens
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But the Fourth of July‚ Independence Day‚ is something more than just another holiday. It is the birthday of a great idea-not merely the idea of independence‚ not merely the idea of the rights of humankind‚ but also the birthday of a profoundly idealistic and profoundly influential charter of liberty. The revolution signaled by the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4‚ 1776‚ laid down the principles which have been the foundation stones of human progress ever since-the
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prime minister manmohan singh speech on independence day 2006-08-15 My dear countrymen‚ brothers‚ sisters‚ and dear children My greetings to all of you on this day‚ the anniversary of our Independence. Today is an auspicious day for our country. Today we enter the 60th year of our Independence. Today we re-dedicate ourselves to the progress and prosperity of our nation. To the welfare of all our people. To the unity and integrity of our country. Today we salute our beloved tricolor. We pay
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Child labour and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labour of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty‚ you will have both poverty and child labour to the end of time. (Grace Abbott)
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• Why is September 16th Mexican Independence Day? What happened on that date? (Include in your answer a summary of two Catholic priests: Miguel Hidalgo and Jose Maria Morelos). Notably‚ September 16th is Mexican Independence Day because revolutionary activity was already a pattern throughout Mexico‚ “but the cause celebre of independence was El Grito de Dolores (The Cry of Pain)‚ a proclamation made by Miguel Hidalgo‚ a parish priest‚ on September 16‚ 1810 (Vigil 112). Furthermore‚ Hidalgo was a
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