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On 15 August 1947, the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru raised the Indian national flag above the Lahori Gate of the Red Fort in Delhi. On each subsequent Independence Day, the incumbent Prime Minister customarily raises the flag and gives an address to the nation which called Tryst with Destiny in the history of India.
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"Tryst with Destiny" was a speech delivered by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India on the 1st eve of India's Independence.
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Read More - The speech delivered by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru towards midnight on 14th August 1947 considered to be one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century 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.
"Tryst with Destiny" was a speech delivered by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India on the 1st eve of India's Independence.
The speech named: Tryst with Destiny
I
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 the still larger cause of humanity.
At the dawn of history, India
started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her
striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill
fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals
which gave her strength. We end today a period of ill fortune and India
discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an
opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us.
Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?
Freedom and power bring
responsibility. The responsibility rests upon this Assembly, a sovereign body representing
the sovereign people of India. Before the birth of freedom, we have endured all
the pains of labor and our hearts are heavy with the memory of this sorrow.
Some of those pains continue even now. Nevertheless, the past is over and it is
the future that beckons to us now.
That future is not one of ease or
resting but of incessant striving so that we may fulfill the pledges we have so
often taken and the one we shall take today. The service of India means the
service of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and
ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity. The ambition of the
greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That
may be beyond us, but as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our
work will not be over.
And so we have to labor and to work,
and work hard, to give reality to our dreams.
Those dreams are for India, but
they are also for the world, for all the nations and peoples are too closely
knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart Peace
has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so
also is a disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated
fragments.
To the people of India, whose
representatives we are, we make an 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.
II
The appointed day has come-the day
appointed by destiny-and India stands forth again, after long slumber and
struggle, awake, vital, free, and independent. The past clings on to us still
in some measure and we have to do much before we redeem the pledges we have so
often taken. Yet the turning-point is past, and history begins anew for us, the
history which we shall live and act and others will write about.
It is a fateful moment for us in
India, for all Asia and the world. A new star rises, the star of freedom in the
East, a new hope comes into being, a vision long cherished materializes. May
the star never set and that hope never be betrayed!
We rejoice in that freedom, even
though clouds surround us, and many of our people are sorrow-stricken and
difficult problems encompass us. But freedom brings responsibilities and
burdens and we have to face them in the spirit of a free and disciplined people.
On this day our first thoughts go
to the architect of this freedom, the Father of our Nation [Gandhi], who,
embodying the old spirit of India, held aloft the torch of freedom and lighted
up the darkness that surrounded us. We have often been unworthy followers of
his and have strayed from his message, but not only we but succeeding
generations will remember this message and bear the imprint in their hearts of
this great son of India, magnificent in his faith and strength and courage and
humility. We shall never allow that torch of freedom to be blown out, however
high the wind or stormy the tempest.
Our next thoughts must be of the
unknown volunteers and soldiers of freedom who, without praise or reward, have
served India even unto death.
We think also of our brothers and
sisters who have been cut off from us by political boundaries and who unhappily
cannot share at present in the freedom that has come. They are of us and will
remain of us whatever may happen, and we shall be sharers in their good [or]
ill fortune alike.
The future beckons to us. Whither do
we go and what shall be our endeavor? To bring freedom and opportunity to the
common man, to the peasants and workers of India; to fight and end poverty and
ignorance and disease; to build up a prosperous, democratic and progressive
nation, and to create social, economic and political institutions which will
ensure justice and fullness of life to every man and woman.
We have hard work ahead. There is no
resting for anyone of us till we redeem our pledge in full, till we make all
the people of India what destiny intended them to be. We are citizens of a
great country on the verge of bold advance, and we have to live up to that high
standard. All of us, to whatever religion we may belong, are equally the
children of India with equal rights, privileges, and obligations. We cannot
encourage communalism or narrow-mindedness, for no nation can be great whose
people are narrow in thought or in action.
To the nations and peoples of the
world, we send greetings and pledge ourselves to cooperate with them in
furthering peace, freedom, and democracy.
And to India, our much-loved
motherland, the ancient, the eternal, and the ever-new, we pay our reverent
homage and we bind ourselves afresh to her service.
JAI HIND.
I
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 the still larger cause of humanity.
At the dawn of history, India
started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her
striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill
fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals
which gave her strength. We end today a period of ill fortune and India
discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an
opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us.
Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?
Freedom and power bring
responsibility. The responsibility rests upon this Assembly, a sovereign body representing
the sovereign people of India. Before the birth of freedom, we have endured all
the pains of labor and our hearts are heavy with the memory of this sorrow.
Some of those pains continue even now. Nevertheless, the past is over and it is
the future that beckons to us now.
That future is not one of ease or
resting but of incessant striving so that we may fulfill the pledges we have so
often taken and the one we shall take today. The service of India means the
service of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and
ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity. The ambition of the
greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That
may be beyond us, but as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our
work will not be over.
And so we have to labor and to work,
and work hard, to give reality to our dreams.
Those dreams are for India, but
they are also for the world, for all the nations and peoples are too closely
knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart Peace
has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so
also is a disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated
fragments.
To the people of India, whose
representatives we are, we make an 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.
II
The appointed day has come-the day
appointed by destiny-and India stands forth again, after long slumber and
struggle, awake, vital, free, and independent. The past clings on to us still
in some measure and we have to do much before we redeem the pledges we have so
often taken. Yet the turning-point is past, and history begins anew for us, the
history which we shall live and act and others will write about.
It is a fateful moment for us in
India, for all Asia and the world. A new star rises, the star of freedom in the
East, a new hope comes into being, a vision long cherished materializes. May
the star never set and that hope never be betrayed!
We rejoice in that freedom, even
though clouds surround us, and many of our people are sorrow-stricken and
difficult problems encompass us. But freedom brings responsibilities and
burdens and we have to face them in the spirit of a free and disciplined people.
On this day our first thoughts go
to the architect of this freedom, the Father of our Nation [Gandhi], who,
embodying the old spirit of India, held aloft the torch of freedom and lighted
up the darkness that surrounded us. We have often been unworthy followers of
his and have strayed from his message, but not only we but succeeding
generations will remember this message and bear the imprint in their hearts of
this great son of India, magnificent in his faith and strength and courage and
humility. We shall never allow that torch of freedom to be blown out, however
high the wind or stormy the tempest.
Our next thoughts must be of the
unknown volunteers and soldiers of freedom who, without praise or reward, have
served India even unto death.
We think also of our brothers and
sisters who have been cut off from us by political boundaries and who unhappily
cannot share at present in the freedom that has come. They are of us and will
remain of us whatever may happen, and we shall be sharers in their good [or]
ill fortune alike.
The future beckons to us. Whither do
we go and what shall be our endeavor? To bring freedom and opportunity to the
common man, to the peasants and workers of India; to fight and end poverty and
ignorance and disease; to build up a prosperous, democratic and progressive
nation, and to create social, economic and political institutions which will
ensure justice and fullness of life to every man and woman.
We have hard work ahead. There is no
resting for anyone of us till we redeem our pledge in full, till we make all
the people of India what destiny intended them to be. We are citizens of a
great country on the verge of bold advance, and we have to live up to that high
standard. All of us, to whatever religion we may belong, are equally the
children of India with equal rights, privileges, and obligations. We cannot
encourage communalism or narrow-mindedness, for no nation can be great whose
people are narrow in thought or in action.
To the nations and peoples of the
world, we send greetings and pledge ourselves to cooperate with them in
furthering peace, freedom, and democracy.
And to India, our much-loved
motherland, the ancient, the eternal, and the ever-new, we pay our reverent
homage and we bind ourselves afresh to her service.
JAI HIND.
(Source - Wikipedia, Modern History Sourcebook
Original Source- Reprinted in Brian McArthur, Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches
(London: Penguin Viking, 1992), pp. 234-237. by Prof. Arkenberg. )
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