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India will awake to life and freedom?
Free India’s first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech still reverberates and evokes one’s patriotic sentiment. His powerful speech on the midnight of August 15, 1947, highlighted the struggles of the people of India. His words, “At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom,” and his speech “Tryst with destiny” which was delivered in Parliament laid the roadmap for future. While India celebrates its 72nd Independence Day this year, we look at the significance of this day.
Here is the full text of the speech:
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. 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. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.