CELEBRATING 63rd INDEPENDENCE DAY on AUGUST 15, 2009
The only place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence is India!
After more than two hundred years of British rule, India finally won backs its freedom on 15th August, 1947. All the patriotic hearts rejoiced at seeing India becoming a sovereign nation and the triumph of hundreds and thousands of martyred souls. It was a birth of a new nation and a new beginning!
A leading figure in the Indian independence movement and independent India's first prime minister Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru truly said "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."
The day is celebrated to commemorate the birth of the world's biggest democracy as a national holiday. Schools and people hoist the national flag through out the country and put them up on the rooftops and the buildings. People only go to offices to attend the flag hoisting ceremony. The Prime Minister addresses the Nation after the flag has been unfurled recounting the country's achievements of the year, discussing current major issues and future plans for the progress of the country.
We are proud of our nation for its courage, sacrifice, spirit, purity, truth, peace, faith and fertility. JAI HIND!
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