Tag: At the Red Fort
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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1954
The Meaning of Freedom Brothers, sisters and friends, Greetings on the anniversary of Independence of new India. It has been seven years since this new India was bom, seven years since we became free. We celebrate this anniversary every year under the ramparts of Red Fort because on this day, for all of us, the…
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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1953
India Faces Tremendous Tasks Today is the sixth birthday of free India—the sixth anniversary of the day that we were re-born. Greetings to all of you on this occasion. We must first pay homage to the memory of that soul who was responsible for making India free, who breathed fresh life into a withered nation…
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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1952
Five Years of Freedom Brothers and sisters, Today is the fifth anniversary of Indian Independence. Five years ago, on this day, we had assembled at this spot in the old city of Delhi and unfurled the flag of freedom from the ramparts of the Red Fort. It heralded the beginning of a new chapter in…
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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1951
For a Concerted Effort to End Poverty Four years are not a very long period in the life of a nation. Yet it is true that the last four years seem to be an age so far as India is concerned. Vital experiences the Indian people have passed through have apparently lengthened the span of…
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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1950
Unity and Equality Sisters and Brothers, This is the third anniversary of the independence of India. I congratulate you on this auspicious occasion. We have come a long way during these three years. We have stumbled and fallen but have picked ourselves up and gone on. I congratulate you for everything that has happened, good…
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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1949
Two Years of Independence I had flown the tri-colour for the first time from these ramparts two years ago. Two years have gone by in our lives and two years have been added to the thousands of years of India’s history. Two years are not very long in many thousands of years of history. But…
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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1948
Stock-taking It is a year since we assembled nere last. A year has passed and all sorts of things happened in this one year and we suffered a great deal. Many a great storm came and many people floundered in the stormy seas. Even so India managed to face the ordeal and cross the seas…
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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1947
The Honour of the Flag We have gathered here on a historic occasion at this ancient fort to win back what was ours. This flag does not symbolize the triumph of individuals or the Congress but the triumph of the whole country. The free flag of India is the symbol of freedom and democracy not…