Question

With the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to Life and Freedom”.These are the golden words said by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, in his famous speech ‘Tryst with Destiny’ delivered by him on the eve of India’s Independence (15 August 1947) when Indians gained freedom from British reign. Watch the given link below and resonating the ideas from the lesson ‘NELSON MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM’, draft a speech (word limit: 100-120 words) to be presented by you when our country would be free from the shackles of COVID 19.

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   Have you heard of Nelson Mandela? Mandela, and his African National Congress, spent a lifetime fighting against apartheid. Mandela had to spend thirty years in prison. Finally, democratic elections were held in South Africa in 1994, and Mandela became the first black President of a new nation.

In this extract from his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom,Mandela speaks about a historic occasion, ‘the inauguration’. Can you guess what the occasion might be? Check your guess with this news item (from the BBC) of 10 May 1994.

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Jawaharlal Nehru's speech "Tryst with Destiny"
"Tryst with Destiny" was a speech delivered by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, to the Indian Constituent Assembly in The Parliament, on the eve of India's Independence, towards midnight on 14 August 1947. It spoke on the aspects that transcend India's history. It is considered to be one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century[1] and to be a landmark oration that captures the essence of the triumphant culmination of the Indian independence struggle against the British Empire in India.