Nehru's 'Tryst with Destiny'
1947 · Event
As midnight approaches in the Constituent Assembly, Nehru rises: 'Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.' The century's most quoted independence speech — delivered while Punjab burns.
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