Tryst with Destiny speech made by Shri. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

Posted on: 2016-08-16 20:18:45

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 which are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success 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.

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There are many reasons for the formation of Telangana state by Congress, especially for her Farmers.

Posted on: 2016-08-07 19:13:08

I’m never interested in any kind of Legislative honours or in that sense in Loaves and Fishes, Our helpless Farmers do not understand them, and they are little affected by them.

There are many reasons for the formation of Telangana state by Congress, especially for her Farmers. I still believe in Grama Swaraj & support Gandhiji’s eleven points about it. That Swaraj of Telangana, which do not satisfy our Farmers is no Swaraj. We are all elected representatives of People from different assemblies to help the sweating millions, but the government is going away from the line of Service. My interest always lies in helping the downtrodden Farmers in Telangana to rise from their state & be on a level with the tallest in the land. We all shall be Thankful to Gandhiji for leaving his legacy in the gospel of Truth & Non-violence which gave us an inkling of their dignity and the power they possess. It is just the beginning of our Telangana. There is much more... Read More