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    'Tryst With Destiny': By: Jawaharlal Nehru

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    Jawaharlal Nehru's speech celebrates India gaining independence from British rule. He states that India is redeeming the pledge of freedom it made long ago. At midnight, India will awake to life and freedom. Nehru calls on Indians to dedicate themselves to serving the people of India and humanity. He acknowledges both the struggles and triumphs in India's history and quest for freedom. Nehru challenges Indians to grasp the opportunity of independence and accept the responsibilities that come with freedom to build a better future for all.

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    Jawaharlal Nehru's speech celebrates India gaining independence from British rule. He states that India is redeeming the pledge of freedom it made long ago. At midnight, India will awake to life and freedom. Nehru calls on Indians to dedicate themselves to serving the people of India and humanity. He acknowledges both the struggles and triumphs in India's history and quest for freedom. Nehru challenges Indians to grasp the opportunity of independence and accept the responsibilities that come with freedom to build a better future for all.

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    'Tryst with Destiny'

    By: Jawaharlal Nehru

    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. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the
    service of India, and her people, and to the still larger cause of humanity.

    At the dawn of history, India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are
    filled with her striving and the grandeur of her successes and her failures. Through good
    and ill fortune alike, she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which
    gave her strength. We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself
    again.

    The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the


    greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise
    enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?

    Freedom and power bring responsibility. That responsibility rests upon this assembly, a
    sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India. Before the birth of freedom
    we have endured all the pains of labor, and our hearts are heavy with the memory of
    this sorrow. Some of those pains continue even now. Nevertheless, the past is over,
    and it is the future that beckons to us now.

    That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we might fulfill
    the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today. The service of
    India means the service of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and
    ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity.

    The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe "every tear from
    every eye." That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so
    long our work will not be over.
    And so we have to labor and to work, and work hard, to -- to give reality to our dreams.
    Those dreams are for India, but they are also for the world, for all the nations and
    peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live
    apart.

    Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom; so is prosperity now; and so also
    is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

    To the people of India, whose representatives we are, we make appeal to join us with
    faith and confidence in this great adventure. This is no time for petty and destructive
    criticism, no time for ill will or blaming others. We have to build the noble mansion of
    free India where all her children may dwell.

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