: HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, HAVE A GREAT DAY

69th  ANNIVERSARY OF INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE Jai Hind VANDE MATARAM  MATARAM  ZANDA UNCHA RAHE HAMARA..............!!!       Today is Independence Day  1 ) "Longyears 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……… 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."- --Jawahar Lal Nehru.     THIS IS AN IMMORTAL ORATORICAL UTTERANCE OF HANDSOME PANDIT JAW AHARLAL NEHRU . THIS SUMMARISES PITHILY & FORCEFULLY WITH ALL PATRIOTIC FERVOUR  THE TRANSITION TO FREEDOM & INDEPENDENCE FROM FOREIGN BRITISH YOKE & ENABLING WE ALL INDIANS TO SALUTE OUR MOTHERLAND  & OUR NATIONAL FLAG. INDIA CREATES HISTORY. PANDIT NEHRUJI PAINTS A SANKALPA FOR FUTURE , TO REDEEM THE PLEDGE, POLITICAL FREEDOM WITH ECONOMIC FREEDOM, TWIN BROTHERS ,WITHOUT  WHICH ,  WE KNOW INDEPENDENCE WILL BE AN UNFULFILLED DREAM  Independence Day of India is celebrated on 15th August to commemorate its independence for British rule and its birth as a sovereign nation in 1947. The day is a national holiday all over the country  Flag-hoisting ceremonies are conducted at the State capitals and by the local administration at district headquarters. The main event takes place in New Delhi where the Prime Minister hoists the national flag at the Red Fort and delivers a nationally televised speech from its ramparts. In his speech, he speaks about the achievements of the Government during the past year, raises important issues and charter for further development. The Prime Minister also pays tribute to the fighters who sacrificed their lives and fought to free our motherland from the clutches of the oppressors-the British.  2) LET US ALL ENDEAVOUR  TO   CREATE AS INDIANS FIRST & INDIANS LAST , A HAPPY INDIA, AN ENERGETIC BHARAT ,HAVING THROWN OFF THE APPELLATION OF AN UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRY,BEING COUNTED WITH HEADS HIGH IN THE COMITY OF NATIONS, AN INDIA WHOSE VOYAGE ENABLES THE NATION TO BECOME A  DEVELOPED NATION IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE    SAARE JAHAN  SE  ACCHA    HINDUSTHAN  HAMARA GREETINGS RB Kishore VP,AIRIEF, ED(Retd),LIC Life Member,Probus Club 044-2815 5810 & 098 4034 0591 .