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 Tryst with Destiny, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's Independence Day Speech (1947) video byIndian National Congress |
"Tryst with Destiny" was anEnglish-language speech byJawaharlal Nehru, the firstPrime Minister ofIndia, to theIndian Constituent Assembly in theParliament House, on the eve ofIndia's Independence, towards midnight on 14 August 1947. The speech spoke on the aspects that transcendedIndian history. It is considered to be one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century[1] and to be a landmark oration that captures the essence of the triumphant culmination of theIndian independence movement againstBritish colonial rule in India. He declared the end of the colonial era and called on citizens to recognize the promise and opportunity of the moment:
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.
His speech[2] went on to pay homage toMahatma Gandhi's efforts in the Independence Movement and called upon his countrymen to work together 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.
The declaration ends with an exhortation to work together in thecommon weal and cautions against narrowsectarian or religious divisiveness:
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.
Keeping in turn with the subject of the film, the trailer begins with Nehru's Tryst with destiny speech.
Keeping in tune with the subject of the film, the trailer of Bharat begins with Jawaharlal Nehru's famous speech, "At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom."