J.S. Jaimohan
Awake to freedom
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny.
A moment comes which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, then an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
To the people of India whose representatives we are, we make appeal to join us with faith and confidence in this great adventure. This is no time for petty and destructive criticism, no time for ill-will or blaming others. We have to build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell.
[Extracts from the Speech by Jawaharlal Nehru India's first Prime Minister to the Constituent Assembly in New Delhi at midnight on August 14, 1947]
63 years! Are we there yet?
Awake to freedom
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny.
A moment comes which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, then an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
To the people of India whose representatives we are, we make appeal to join us with faith and confidence in this great adventure. This is no time for petty and destructive criticism, no time for ill-will or blaming others. We have to build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell.
[Extracts from the Speech by Jawaharlal Nehru India's first Prime Minister to the Constituent Assembly in New Delhi at midnight on August 14, 1947]
63 years! Are we there yet?