Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we will 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 .... We end today a period of ill fortune, and India discovers herself again." ................... Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his Independence day speech on 15th August 1947.
On its 63rd Independence day much of those speech still holds valid, albeit in a different manner. We still do have a tryst with destiny, one of becoming a global super power and we definitely should redeem our pledge - to work diligently and conscientiously towards contributing whatever we can and more to enable our country to attain that status. The moment is here and now, when the whole developed world struggled with recession, for India to step out from our archaic foreign policies to the new, and the soul of the liberated (mentally and knowledgewise) liberated Indians, long suppressed to raise their voice and be counted. And we, as a great nation, has to rediscover ourself all over again. For that to happen, every single one of us should take a rain check on where we are and where we want to be. It is not the Government's duty, it is our, each citizens, duty to protect our independence and take the country to greater heights.
Jai Hind!
