@b k The tragedy is that we have imbeciles like you who are capable of speaking and understanding English yet lack the mental fortitude required appreciate the import of the words being uttered.
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 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. 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. The 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 labour 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 may fulfil 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, ignorance, 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 as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over. And so we have to labour and to work, and work hard, 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 an 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. The appointed day has come-the day appointed by destiny-and India stands forth again, after long slumber and struggle, awake, vital, free and independent. The past clings on to us still in some measure and we have to do much before we redeem the pledges we have so often taken. Yet the turning-point is past, and history begins anew for us, the history which we shall live and act and others will write about. It is a fateful moment for us in India, for all Asia and for the world. A new star rises, the star of freedom in the East, a new hope comes into being, a vision long cherished materializes. May the star never set and that hope never be betrayed! We rejoice in that freedom, even though clouds surround us, and many of our people are sorrow-stricken and difficult problems encompass us. But freedom brings responsibilities and burdens and we have to face them in the spirit of a free and disciplined people. On this day our first thoughts go to the architect of this freedom, the Father of our Nation, who, embodying the old spirit of India, held aloft the torch of freedom and lighted up the darkness that surrounded us. We have often been unworthy followers of his and have strayed from his message, but not only we but succeeding generations will remember this message and bear the imprint in their hearts of this great son of India, magnificent in his faith and strength and courage and humility. We shall never allow that torch of freedom to be blown out, however high the wind or stormy the tempest. Our next thoughts must be of the unknown volunteers and soldiers of freedom who, without praise or reward, have served India even unto death. We think also of our brothers and sisters who have been cut off from us by political boundaries and who unhappily cannot share at present in the freedom that has come. They are of us and will remain of us whatever may happen, and we shall be sharers in their good [or] ill fortune alike. The future beckons to us. Whither do we go and what shall be our endeavour? 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. We have hard work ahead. There is no resting for any one of us till we redeem our pledge in full, till we make all the people of India what destiny intended them to be. We are citizens of a great country on the verge of bold advance, and we have to live up to that high standard. 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. To the nations and peoples of the world we send greetings and pledge ourselves to cooperate with them in furthering peace, freedom and democracy. And to India, our much-loved motherland, the ancient, the eternal and the ever-new, we pay our reverent homage and we bind ourselves afresh to her service. JAI HIND.
I think it can only be said Nehruji spoke English with the finest of eloquence and sounds just like my great grandfather who was in the Colonial Government of British Kenya and weirdly he supported India’s independence but questioned whether it was the right time to give Kenya her’s.
I love how he says, “...to the still larger cause of humanity.” It shows how even though we had gained independence and had a fundamental duty towards serving our nation, it is still more important to serve towards the cause of humanity. That right there, is true patriotism.
It gave me chills..All I could feel is that how and in what terms pt.ji envisioned our country ..a newly born country which is not only responsible of its own future but should be strong enough to take up the cause of humanity and serve it well.This is a India we all want..Jai Hind...
@@icequeenhr7523nothing like that. We've the largest population, If we work even for only our people we still will be serving humanity! Just think about it, If we focus on only eradicating poverty in India not on anything else and if we can successfully do so...How great worm for Humanity that would be? And who said we've forgotten that? Do you know what Indian Pharmaceutical industry has done for Africa? Just know about it... We're giving loans to countries like Sri Lanka in their bad times. Is it not serving Humanity?
@@Ramirez321"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps... who wrote this speech?? Oh nevermind. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world is awake, when we are supposed to be sleeping, we are also awake, which makes this midnight hour an hour when the whole world is awake, and a moment like this comes but rarely in human history..."
India was lucky to have a Prime Minister like him. Greatest people of our democracy like Gandhi, Nehru,Patel and Bose are being abused today, its a shame.
But they were and will remain forever the greatest.... Netaji Bose, Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Baba Saheb Ambedkar and Pandit Nehru..... they were legendary...hardly few individuals in entire human history were comparable to them
A lot of people wonder why he never spoke in Hindi. There are a lot of reasons for that. 1. This speech wasn't for the people of the country. It was a speech to the rest of the world. A declaration of independence and soverignty. A message that a new sun had shone in South Asia. 2. At that time, the union was not consolidated. India looked very different. The southern states were very apprehensive about joining the union fearing Hindi imposition. Nehru wanted those states to know, even if they couldn't understand it, that he spoke for them too.
@United Provinces of Planet Earth ? Why you got to work for 9 to 12 hours a day for "money" then you are definitely frustrated and depressed, it's not western stuff it's scientific illness. Plese don't give lectures to others about your half old orthodox knowledge
And how did they ever helped India. IIT/IIM built to provide Indian govt with able engineers and managers are now working for Silicon Valley. Most of PSU became corrupt and got deprecated or privatized. India lost the train to post war Industrialization and Globalization boom, and able to come together only after we unshackled our politics and economics from his stupid ideals.
@@junkerwarg5965 I don't care weather some material came out of his thoughts or not. I read his book the Discovery of India. That itself was the best way of learn about him in person. What he saw India as, what he admired of India and what he wanted our India to be. No wonder our consititution, parliment system and everything talked about equality, justice and humanity. These things are way above anything for me. India survived 75 years with so much DIVERSITY. itself shows what really we acheived as a nation.
Nehru ji even though I was not there in your period but as today's circumstances we need a kind of leadership like you who understands the value of an education, science and technology, the pain of poor etc. Jai hind jai Bharat
@@samarthh6528 all schools , hospitals , aiims , colleges , universities , roads , industrialization , mordernization, westernization happened under him galtiiyan hoti hai sabse iska matlab yeh nahi hai ki sab ache kaam bhul jao aur infact unka foriengn policy ko criticize kiya jata hai but puri duniya ne cold war ke time usko praise kiya tha kyuki Nehru ne india ko cold war se dur rakha tha
@@samarthh6528 you are a low life bro. We fought with the Chinese. Lost or won is another thing. We all know what Modi did months back. He has made our army look coward. Plus, when are you bringing back PoK and Akshai Chin since that's all you keep blabbering all day.
@raider 342 Yes he had said that, ok do you know that who will be your enemy after 10 years? I am telling among your friends that do you know in future who will be your enemy? If you can give me your answer with an explanation then we can carry forward our discussion. Thank you
Tears in my eyes. Ideals that gave her strength. Expected better from our country. Best speech of the 20th century. Wake up India. The service of India, means the service of millions who still suffer.
@@niladridas7350 isne nahi kiya hindu mahasabha walo ke karan huye muslim leugue and congress mai negotiations ho rhe the but aak important meeting mai hindu mahasabha walo ne mana kar diya issiliye hua Source : Class 10 Ncert page no.68 last paragraph and 69 first paragraph
One of the greatest speech by one of the greatest Indian to ever taken birth in the world. The most beloved son of Bharat Mata ❤🇮🇳🙏 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru ❤ Nehru lives in the soul of Bharat Mata.
"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." Please remember this, citizens of India. Don't destroy the greatest democracy in the history of humankind.
I love your comment but i object to the word 'greatest'. There is no greatest democracy, neither India nor USA. We all are working to become great humanity.
Say what you want, but without him the groundwork that made us a democracy wouldn't exist. The right wingers condemn him but forget that it was this very system that allowed them to come into power
There are two interviews also available on youtube of Jawaharlal Nehru and Arnold Michaelis. One from 1958 and another from 1964. Both about half an hour and very interesting conversations. Must watch.
Uhh not to be a very complaining person, but the emoji you put over there literally means "i don't care" and your comment is pretty much a comedy with patriotic text and "i don't give a damn" emoji.
Lucky that we had such a leader for guiding this country in the initial days, the most crucial days just after getting freedom. After 75 yrs of this speech.... The lines will guide and encourage everyone for years to come... Jai Hind Chaha Nehru
Listening to it today at the stroke of midnight after 75th anniversary, Dear nehruji, we achieved almost you tought, we are progressive, on the path that you find for us, as a citizens we will work hard for our dreams, we joined with confidence for our dreams. salute to Our great noble ideal personality, who gives us freedom💐💐💐💐💐🌹🌹🌹🥀🥀🥀🌻🌺💐🌷🌷🌷💮🌸💐💐💐
Not to be mean but: Nehru was the first elected pm of india A blind follower who doesn't question or reason a situation IIT IIM green ,white revolution,5year plan etc
Narendra Modi has the power in his words and that is why he is considered a great leader. If he has become a prime minister then it only shows that even a "chaiwala" is very capable and intelligent to lead such a powerful country. It proves that every Indian is great.
India is fortunate to have Nehru as his first and the longest PM, a social democrat and a secular liberal statesman who set the basis for his motherland to become the largest democracy and one of the largest economies of the world. No wonder his literary creation “ Glimpse of the world “ (a collection of his letters to his daughter Indra from the Jail) though shortlisted but denied the coveted Noble prize in literature on account of his colonial background. However he was bestowed with the next in line “Lenin Award”.
@@flaminmongrel6955 Tell me one thing do you think there's any good in capitalism, the ideology which guarantees the selling, transfiguration and transformation and appropriation of culture if it profits someone? Socialism isn't great, but if we have to strive and keep our culture intact we need for us to be neo socialists or neo capitalists, one with sanctions and impositions.
@@justkillitho4528 @justkillit ho u forget to mention .. More divide between rich and poor. More power to few rich individuals. More suppression of freedom. More slavery. Your low poverty is an short term expectation neglecting the long term potential of society growth. Ask a economist not an educated fool...! Poverty is bad but certainly less poverty will also lead to a disaster .... Everyone wants in a society wants to be rich then their surrounding which thereby means one holding more money thus one rich means one poor...! Free market is good concept but if decentralised market work wrongly than you will we the one to curse it but no one will be there to help... Just take an example of wistron case !
Thank you Nehruji and all our founding fathers for your great vision. India today and for many years will reap the benefits of what you sowed. Thanks a billion
Vir Das kind of ruined it for me when he pointed out that midnight in India was 7 PM in London, and pretty much every western nation would have been very much awake at the time.
I WAS JUST 68 DAYS OLD, IN THE LAP OF MY BIOLOGICAL MATA AND IN THE LAP OF "MY BHARAT MATA" WHEN HONOURABLE Pt. NEHRU SPOKE THUS ON 15th. AUGUST, 1947. HOW LUCKY I AM!!!
The 1950s and 1960s were the best time of Indian nation post Independence. So much enthusiasm, patriotism and sense of duty to build the nation in the hearts of every citizen! 🇮🇳✨
This speech link is mentioned in 12 th history 1 st volume book .... A great honour to school book makers... and also teachers should show the video to all growing juvenile stars (students) of our country
आज इसे मेरे भारत के 75वे स्वतन्त्रता दिवस की मध्यरात्रि में सुन रहा हूँ। बिल्कुल वही रोमांच और विस्मय महसूस हो रहा है, जो शायद उस समय मौजूद हर व्यक्ति को हो रहा होगा। Today, listening it in the midnight of 75th independence day of my Bharat. Still getting goosebumps, just like any other person might have felt that time. मेरा भारत महान..🇮🇳❣️
Dear Pt. Nehru ji, You will be very sad to hear the state of this country today, it is not the India you dreamt of. People are using british policy of Divide and rule, untouchability, casteism, communalism are still here. 😔😔🇮🇳
@@orionfernandes4587 They were. The British used communal (not communist, communal) politicians to instigate hatred within the masses, so that's divide and rule. The British turned the Leaders against the People, caste against caste, community against community, party against party, but most importantly: Hindus against Muslims.
Listening to it today at the stroke of midnight after 75th anniversary, Dear nehruji, we achieved almost you tought, we are progressive, on the path that you find for us, as a citizens we will work hard for our dreams, we joined with confidence for our dreams. salute to Our great noble ideal personality, who gives us freedom💐💐💐💐💐🌹🌹🌹🥀🥀🥀🌻🌺💐🌷🌷🌷💮🌸💐💐💐
Pandit ji was courageous enough to apologize on behalf of Congress party after general election of 1952 shyama prasad mukharjee on issue of extravagant expenses on election ,not like others who mock up those who question. Such was our first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal nehru! 🙏
I just get so emotional. I have tears in my eyes every time. I believe Nehru would despair if he saw Indian politics today. There's a lot to be proud of, but some things could be better.
Every student of India should watch this...!!...because God has given us the power to make the world better to live... But unfortunately, those politicians (not all, bt max) of today can never understand the weightage of this speech...😥
"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!"
Pt. JLN was a visionary. The ignorant people who ridicule him are a disgrace to the nation. India is one of the fastest growing nation today just because of the foundations laid by him and institutions established by him. Thats was the reason MK Gandhi was fond of him. I just can’t see pseudo nationalists Maligning the image of our great leader. HE DESERVES RESPECT.
Entered in 76th year of independence...with a vision to contribute rest of my life to make this country better.... I was born in India, I've studied in India, I will work for India in India ❤️
At the stroke of midnight, when world sleeps, INDIA will awake to life and freedom. Salute to PM Nehruji & All the freedom fighters.... And of course our Father of Nation M Gandhiji.
Listening to it today at the stroke of midnight after 75th anniversary, Dear nehruji, we achieved almost you tought, we are progressive, on the path that you find for us, as a citizens we will work hard for our dreams, we joined with confidence for our dreams. salute to Our great noble ideal personality, who gives us freedom💐💐💐💐💐🌹🌹🌹🥀🥀🥀🌻🌺💐🌷🌷🌷💮🌸💐💐💐
I really had goosebumps for the whole speech. Nehru is the best PM India had so far. It is tragedy that some people even sat on this great place and trying to demolish the fundamental values of the nation.
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 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. 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. The 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 labour 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 may fulfil 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 as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over. And so we have to labour and to work, and work hard, 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 anyone 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 an 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. The appointed day has come - the day appointed by destiny - and India stands forth again, after long slumber and struggle, awake, vital, free and independent. The past clings on to us still in some measure and we have to do much before we redeem the pledges we have so often taken. Yet the turning point is past, and history begins anew for us, the history which we shall live and act and others will write about. It is a fateful moment for us in India, for all Asia and for the world. A new star rises, the star of freedom in the east, a new hope comes into being, a vision long cherished materialises. May the star never set and that hope never be betrayed! We rejoice in that freedom, even though clouds surround us, and many of our people are sorrow-stricken and difficult problems encompass us. But freedom brings responsibilities and burdens and we have to face them in the spirit of a free and disciplined people. On this day our first thoughts go to the architect of this freedom, the father of our nation, who, embodying the old spirit of India, held aloft the torch of freedom and lighted up the darkness that surrounded us. We have often been unworthy followers of his and have strayed from his message, but not only we but succeeding generations will remember this message and bear the imprint in their hearts of this great son of India, magnificent in his faith and strength and courage and humility. We shall never allow that torch of freedom to be blown out, however high the wind or stormy the tempest. Our next thoughts must be of the unknown volunteers and soldiers of freedom who, without praise or reward, have served India even unto death. We think also of our brothers and sisters who have been cut off from us by political boundaries and who unhappily cannot share at present in the freedom that has come. They are of us and will remain of us whatever may happen, and we shall be sharers in their good and ill fortune alike. The future beckons to us. Whither do we go and what shall be our endeavour? 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. We have hard work ahead. There is no resting for any one of us till we redeem our pledge in full, till we make all the people of India what destiny intended them to be. We are citizens of a great country, on the verge of bold advance, and we have to live up to that high standard. All of us, to whatever religion we may belong, are equally the children of India with equal rights, privileges and obligations. We cannot encourage communism or narrow-mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought or in action. To the nations and people of the world we send greetings and pledge ourselves to cooperate with them in furthering peace, freedom and democracy. And to India, our much-loved motherland, the ancient, the eternal and the ever-new, we pay our reverent homage and we bind ourselves afresh to her service. Jai Hind."
The fact which gives me goosebumps is that this speech was an extempore Nehru ji was disheartened by the call he received from Lahore about killing of hindus and sikh which had started on that day. He did not prepared any speech just spoke his heart out. Massive Respect. 🙏🏻
Great speech and those words should be our motivation towards a greater India!.....but i must say that in that fabled central hall of the Parliament, one man is missing...whose contribution to the freedom of India is unparalleled and that great man is NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE 🙏....he will always be in our hearts and he is an inspiration to millions of indians🇮🇳🙏💓
this speech is regarded as one of the greatest speech of 20th century.
Constitution assembly Objectives speech is greater, more important and more relevant than this...🙄
@Might is Right this speech was recited to the assembly not to the country
@b k The tragedy is that we have imbeciles like you who are capable of speaking and understanding English yet lack the mental fortitude required appreciate the import of the words being uttered.
No this is not one of the best speech of 20th century it is the best speech of the 20th century
Sublime!
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 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. 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. The 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 labour 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 may fulfil 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, ignorance, 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 as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
And so we have to labour and to work, and work hard, 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 an 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.
The appointed day has come-the day appointed by destiny-and India stands forth again, after long slumber and struggle, awake, vital, free and independent. The past clings on to us still in some measure and we have to do much before we redeem the pledges we have so often taken. Yet the turning-point is past, and history begins anew for us, the history which we shall live and act and others will write about.
It is a fateful moment for us in India, for all Asia and for the world. A new star rises, the star of freedom in the East, a new hope comes into being, a vision long cherished materializes. May the star never set and that hope never be betrayed!
We rejoice in that freedom, even though clouds surround us, and many of our people are sorrow-stricken and difficult problems encompass us. But freedom brings responsibilities and burdens and we have to face them in the spirit of a free and disciplined people.
On this day our first thoughts go to the architect of this freedom, the Father of our Nation, who, embodying the old spirit of India, held aloft the torch of freedom and lighted up the darkness that surrounded us. We have often been unworthy followers of his and have strayed from his message, but not only we but succeeding generations will remember this message and bear the imprint in their hearts of this great son of India, magnificent in his faith and strength and courage and humility. We shall never allow that torch of freedom to be blown out, however high the wind or stormy the tempest.
Our next thoughts must be of the unknown volunteers and soldiers of freedom who, without praise or reward, have served India even unto death.
We think also of our brothers and sisters who have been cut off from us by political boundaries and who unhappily cannot share at present in the freedom that has come. They are of us and will remain of us whatever may happen, and we shall be sharers in their good [or] ill fortune alike.
The future beckons to us. Whither do we go and what shall be our endeavour? 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.
We have hard work ahead. There is no resting for any one of us till we redeem our pledge in full, till we make all the people of India what destiny intended them to be. We are citizens of a great country on the verge of bold advance, and we have to live up to that high standard. 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.
To the nations and peoples of the world we send greetings and pledge ourselves to cooperate with them in furthering peace, freedom and democracy.
And to India, our much-loved motherland, the ancient, the eternal and the ever-new, we pay our reverent homage and we bind ourselves afresh to her service.
JAI HIND.
Thanks a lot!
Thanks a lot...
Kajal Rani waaw
Thank u but we can hear that 😅😅😅
I think it can only be said Nehruji spoke English with the finest of eloquence and sounds just like my great grandfather who was in the Colonial Government of British Kenya and weirdly he supported India’s independence but questioned whether it was the right time to give Kenya her’s.
Listening to it today at the stroke of midnight after 74 years 🙂
But now it's 75 years 🙂🙂
How did it feel when you heard it before 75 years
😆😆😆
Me too
@@priyasaharan1247 me too😃
*At the stroke of midnight hour when the world sleeps India will awake to life & freedom...!!*
This Gives GOODBUMPS each & every time...!!🔥❤️
just unique.....
swear by god it does
at the stroke of midnight,the whole world was not sleeping,and it was a bright day in AMERICA 😂
True
@@krutoiuchiha8942 😄
This speech is 100x more progressive than what our leaders give nowadays..
Hey umm,do you know whether this speech was delivered on independence day?
@@rashmidwivedi804yes if you look at the description you will know
Bruh it was delivered on 1st Independence day obviously it will hit harder than everything else!
who doesnt!@@rashmidwivedi804
I love how he says, “...to the still larger cause of humanity.” It shows how even though we had gained independence and had a fundamental duty towards serving our nation, it is still more important to serve towards the cause of humanity. That right there, is true patriotism.
Sadly, this is something that most people have forgotten in the name of "national interest," not just in our country but in other countries as well.
@@icequeenhr7523 whole world I think ;(
It gave me chills..All I could feel is that how and in what terms pt.ji envisioned our country ..a newly born country which is not only responsible of its own future but should be strong enough to take up the cause of humanity and serve it well.This is a India we all want..Jai Hind...
Your way of words reminds me of kabi guru's words in hisbook nationalism
@@icequeenhr7523nothing like that. We've the largest population, If we work even for only our people we still will be serving humanity! Just think about it, If we focus on only eradicating poverty in India not on anything else and if we can successfully do so...How great worm for Humanity that would be? And who said we've forgotten that? Do you know what Indian Pharmaceutical industry has done for Africa? Just know about it... We're giving loans to countries like Sri Lanka in their bad times. Is it not serving Humanity?
0:33 , all the goosebumps and tears 🇮🇳
0:33
True
When it is nighttime in India, it is daylight in the Western countries . It's mean they are not sleeping that time 😂
@@Ramirez321"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps... who wrote this speech?? Oh nevermind. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world is awake, when we are supposed to be sleeping, we are also awake, which makes this midnight hour an hour when the whole world is awake, and a moment like this comes but rarely in human history..."
India was lucky to have a Prime Minister like him.
Greatest people of our democracy like Gandhi, Nehru,Patel and Bose are being abused today, its a shame.
But they were and will remain forever the greatest.... Netaji Bose, Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Baba Saheb Ambedkar and Pandit Nehru..... they were legendary...hardly few individuals in entire human history were comparable to them
@CONFID3NC3 who is problematic dude?
@CONFID3NC3 he himself revealed those experiments in public they didnt leaked or something and manu ben called him her mother .
I love Gandhi ji
@CONFID3NC3 Problematic were RSS leadees who supported Brits
A lot of people wonder why he never spoke in Hindi. There are a lot of reasons for that.
1. This speech wasn't for the people of the country. It was a speech to the rest of the world. A declaration of independence and soverignty. A message that a new sun had shone in South Asia.
2. At that time, the union was not consolidated. India looked very different. The southern states were very apprehensive about joining the union fearing Hindi imposition. Nehru wanted those states to know, even if they couldn't understand it, that he spoke for them too.
I Couldn't have explained this to my foreign friends in a much better way than you have 👍
Contrary to popular belief, Hindi is NOT the national language of India.
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Wow, i finally got the answer.
To add to your 2nd point, not only southern but also the eastern region including WB and North East were not well versed in Hindi back then.
This is the real nehru that India forever remember not the nehru you see in watsapp messeges
Back in time when politicians were educated, nowadays everyone has criminal charges
also these educated politicians went to jail more than any criminal in India lol
@@harshthakur1 they went in jail for a good cause....... To give us this lyf of freedom..
If you are calling this man educated this shows how educated you are, he is not educated he is just literate, both are two different things.
@@stargamer8071 atleast he was better than modi who is uneducated and religiously biased
@@stargamer8071 if u dont know chacha Nehru was a lawyer
Whenever i feel depressed i just look at my country's freedom fighters and i feel that i won't let my nation go down!
Good boy
@United Provinces of Planet Earth what?
@United Provinces of Planet Earth ? Why you got to work for 9 to 12 hours a day for "money" then you are definitely frustrated and depressed, it's not western stuff it's scientific illness. Plese don't give lectures to others about your half old orthodox knowledge
@United Provinces of Planet Earth I am not understanding you?
@United Provinces of Planet Earth Money is important but one should be alive to earn money...
I am happy to be called a nehru bhakt. I am no right winger or left winger..but nehru..his socialist ideas and thought process were beyond times.
And how did they ever helped India. IIT/IIM built to provide Indian govt with able engineers and managers are now working for Silicon Valley. Most of PSU became corrupt and got deprecated or privatized. India lost the train to post war Industrialization and Globalization boom, and able to come together only after we unshackled our politics and economics from his stupid ideals.
@@junkerwarg5965 I don't care weather some material came out of his thoughts or not. I read his book the Discovery of India. That itself was the best way of learn about him in person. What he saw India as, what he admired of India and what he wanted our India to be. No wonder our consititution, parliment system and everything talked about equality, justice and humanity.
These things are way above anything for me. India survived 75 years with so much DIVERSITY. itself shows what really we acheived as a nation.
Then you're bhakt of a Brahmin
Listening to it on 12AM at 75th anniversary of freedom, and I feel surely that India will awake.... Long live the courage!
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No matter how much fake news is spread about Nehru he still remains one of the greatest PM of India like Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Bahadur Shastri
Yes he was a great pm he made some mistakes but it's ok India at that time was really backward and being first pm he had to do lots of work
@Gaurav Gadhale sarcasm?😅
@Gaurav Gadhale .yes the Sangh logic all wrong decisions by nehru in those days and all right decisions by Patel in those days 😁
Ain't nothing is fake news. Not denying that Nehru did good work but there were various wrong doings.
@Gaurav Gadhale this statement is an oxymoron...
Nehru ji even though I was not there in your period but as today's circumstances we need a kind of leadership like you who understands the value of an education, science and technology, the pain of poor etc.
Jai hind jai Bharat
I saw his era. Today we are in a mess due to decline in the moral values.
Lol he gave away Aksai Chin and you are telling about leadership
@@samarthh6528 all schools , hospitals , aiims , colleges , universities , roads , industrialization , mordernization, westernization happened under him galtiiyan hoti hai sabse iska matlab yeh nahi hai ki sab ache kaam bhul jao aur infact unka foriengn policy ko criticize kiya jata hai but puri duniya ne cold war ke time usko praise kiya tha kyuki Nehru ne india ko cold war se dur rakha tha
@@samarthh6528 you are a low life bro. We fought with the Chinese. Lost or won is another thing. We all know what Modi did months back. He has made our army look coward. Plus, when are you bringing back PoK and Akshai Chin since that's all you keep blabbering all day.
@raider 342 Yes he had said that, ok do you know that who will be your enemy after 10 years? I am telling among your friends that do you know in future who will be your enemy? If you can give me your answer with an explanation then we can carry forward our discussion.
Thank you
Listening to this at the stroke midningt when India is celebrating the 75th Azadi ka amrit mahotsav... 🇮🇳❤️❤️❤️ Jai hind.
Me too
Tears in my eyes. Ideals that gave her strength. Expected better from our country. Best speech of the 20th century. Wake up India. The service of India, means the service of millions who still suffer.
What a class of Nehru! Applaudable
English?
Isnei desh ko alag kia tha!
Absolutely
@@niladridas7350 rhne de yaar tu aandbhakt.
@@niladridas7350 isne nahi kiya hindu mahasabha walo ke karan huye muslim leugue and congress mai negotiations ho rhe the but aak important meeting mai hindu mahasabha walo ne mana kar diya issiliye hua
Source : Class 10 Ncert page no.68 last paragraph and 69 first paragraph
One of the greatest speech by one of the greatest Indian to ever taken birth in the world.
The most beloved son of Bharat Mata ❤🇮🇳🙏
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru ❤
Nehru lives in the soul of Bharat Mata.
Came here at 12am today 🙂 75th Independence Day 🇮🇳 May our land prosper and be an example of values to the world 🌍
Nehru ji Contribution in building India can't be ignored for sure
"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."
Please remember this, citizens of India. Don't destroy the greatest democracy in the history of humankind.
I love your comment but i object to the word 'greatest'. There is no greatest democracy, neither India nor USA. We all are working to become great humanity.
Saachi gupta I suppose OP was talking about how it’s the most concise yet largest democracy :) but yeah also true
These chaddi topi walass will destroy our beautiful country one day....
Every Independence Day I find myself coming back to this🇮🇳
Listening it today at the stroke of midnight 78 years of freedom ! Long live India !!
Loads of thanks to technology revolution that gave us opportunity to listen to the greatest leader Jawahar lal Nehruji...
Absolutely
Say what you want, but without him the groundwork that made us a democracy wouldn't exist. The right wingers condemn him but forget that it was this very system that allowed them to come into power
@@singhanmolpreet5935 I agree he fucked up things but Nehru ki galti sab kuch me yeh log dhunte hai
There are two interviews also available on youtube of Jawaharlal Nehru and Arnold Michaelis. One from 1958 and another from 1964. Both about half an hour and very interesting conversations. Must watch.
This speech gives me goosebumps and brings tears to my eyes every time 🇮🇳
True
Uhh not to be a very complaining person, but the emoji you put over there literally means "i don't care" and your comment is pretty much a comedy with patriotic text and "i don't give a damn" emoji.
@@shubhnamdeo2865 ohh silly me
Lucky that we had such a leader for guiding this country in the initial days, the most crucial days just after getting freedom. After 75 yrs of this speech.... The lines will guide and encourage everyone for years to come... Jai Hind Chaha Nehru
Listening to it today at the stroke of midnight after 75th anniversary,
Dear nehruji, we achieved almost you tought, we are progressive, on the path that you find for us, as a citizens we will work hard for our dreams, we joined with confidence for our dreams. salute to Our great noble ideal personality, who gives us freedom💐💐💐💐💐🌹🌹🌹🥀🥀🥀🌻🌺💐🌷🌷🌷💮🌸💐💐💐
No matter sanghi and his brainwashed bhakts try to erase him from history but legacy will remain and celebrated nobody can take away that
Just ask yourself 3 questions.
1. Who was nehru?
2. What do you mean by "Bhakt"?
3. Which legacy?
Not to be mean but:
Nehru was the first elected pm of india
A blind follower who doesn't question or reason a situation
IIT IIM green ,white revolution,5year plan etc
Nehru was great, illerate people abuse him...
Pandit ji ko shat shat Naman!🙏
Lol
@Gaurav Gadhale chup bhakt
@@blicky2563 fact bolne wale bhakt hotey na tere hisaab se ❤vdey .
@Gaurav Gadhale Nepal liberation 😂 bhai aapke knowledge ko salaam..
@Gaurav Gadhale accha waisa h..mereko British-Nepal treaty 1923 ke according laga, Nepal toh hamesha se independent raha hai
ONLY 10 minutes for 75th independence day.....
I can't stop crying🇮🇳❤️😭
I'm so proud to be born in Humara Pyara Bharat❤️💙
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Jai Hind!
If today we have a Chaiwala as your primeminister it's simply because of pandit jawaharlal Nehru's greatness
We should not demean any prime minister we should respect every person on that position
No it's because of our constitution greatness.noone else
Who is pandit😂 Khan kabhi pandit nahi hote
Narendra Modi has the power in his words and that is why he is considered a great leader. If he has become a prime minister then it only shows that even a "chaiwala" is very capable and intelligent to lead such a powerful country. It proves that every Indian is great.
@@DarshanaRS-jb9vw 100% true
Listening at the the stroke of midnight hour. 75 years. Jai Hind🇮🇳
Same! Happy Independence Day!
The world sleeps India will wake up
Happy 76 Independence day of India 🇮🇳 🎉
Happy independence day❤❤
We r leasning him at the stroke of midnight aajadi bohut sundar chij hai 🇮🇳
India is fortunate to have Nehru as his first and the longest PM, a social democrat and a secular liberal statesman who set the basis for his motherland to become the largest democracy and one of the largest economies of the world.
No wonder his literary creation “ Glimpse of the world “ (a collection of his letters to his daughter Indra from the Jail) though shortlisted but denied the coveted Noble prize in literature on account of his colonial background. However he was bestowed with the next in line “Lenin Award”.
Not at all, India would have been more fortunate if Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was the first and longest pm
@@Smart_Soham Patel died in 1950, a year before the 1951 elections.
His voice is unrealistic .. it bears a subtle grandeur and wisdom 🥀🍷
The greatest speech of the 20th century. Even after 75 years, it still gives goosebumps. Earlier we had educated leaders, today we have criminals.
look at how glorious the leaders of congress use to be.... we need such;leaders today
Aye Mate Aye
Fuck off this guy promoted socialism there is nothing glorious about socialism.
@@flaminmongrel6955 Tell me one thing do you think there's any good in capitalism, the ideology which guarantees the selling, transfiguration and transformation and appropriation of culture if it profits someone? Socialism isn't great, but if we have to strive and keep our culture intact we need for us to be neo socialists or neo capitalists, one with sanctions and impositions.
@@denianal9712 freedom idiot.
freedom.
free market.
more jobs
less poverty
@@justkillitho4528 @justkillit ho u forget to mention ..
More divide between rich and poor.
More power to few rich individuals.
More suppression of freedom.
More slavery.
Your low poverty is an short term expectation neglecting the long term potential of society growth.
Ask a economist not an educated fool...!
Poverty is bad but certainly less poverty will also lead to a disaster ....
Everyone wants in a society wants to be rich then their surrounding which thereby means one holding more money thus one rich means one poor...!
Free market is good concept but if decentralised market work wrongly than you will we the one to curse it but no one will be there to help...
Just take an example of wistron case !
The Greatest Prime Minister 🙌
Listening this on 30 Mins before our 78th Independence Day
Completing 77 years of FREEDOM ❤
0:33 “ at the stroke of the midnight hour when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom” 🇮🇳💪🏻 #jaihind
Listening to this 75 years later. God!! Gives me goosebumps at seeing how far we've come as a nation.
Thank you Nehruji and all our founding fathers for your great vision. India today and for many years will reap the benefits of what you sowed. Thanks a billion
At the stroke of the midnight hour when the world sleeps india will awake to life and freedom
Favourite line really really very inspirational 👏👏👍👍
Vir Das kind of ruined it for me when he pointed out that midnight in India was 7 PM in London, and pretty much every western nation would have been very much awake at the time.
I am so fortunate that i understood this man's greatness in this lifetime only.
Well said!
Lol
@Joseph Stalin only a communist can think so
I WAS JUST 68 DAYS OLD, IN THE LAP OF MY BIOLOGICAL MATA AND IN THE LAP OF "MY BHARAT MATA" WHEN HONOURABLE Pt. NEHRU SPOKE THUS ON 15th. AUGUST, 1947.
HOW LUCKY I AM!!!
The 1950s and 1960s were the best time of Indian nation post Independence. So much enthusiasm, patriotism and sense of duty to build the nation in the hearts of every citizen! 🇮🇳✨
We lost War against China due to him and Nation's enthusiasm and this c^nt's political career were finished after that.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru:- Bharat mata's favorite prince
This speech link is mentioned in 12 th history 1 st volume book .... A great honour to school book makers... and also teachers should show the video to all growing juvenile stars (students) of our country
Yes.. 12th book pathathunaala thaa intha video paakave vantha
What a speech, will listen tomorrow morning again.
2 days after independence day. Love u india. Though I am not in India I want to come back!
disha g India welcome you
Oh tnx
If that is what your heart wants,do come back.
Long live India 🇮🇳.
आज इसे मेरे भारत के 75वे स्वतन्त्रता दिवस की मध्यरात्रि में सुन रहा हूँ। बिल्कुल वही रोमांच और विस्मय महसूस हो रहा है, जो शायद उस समय मौजूद हर व्यक्ति को हो रहा होगा।
Today, listening it in the midnight of 75th independence day of my Bharat. Still getting goosebumps, just like any other person might have felt that time.
मेरा भारत महान..🇮🇳❣️
Dear Pt. Nehru ji,
You will be very sad to hear the state of this country today, it is not the India you dreamt of.
People are using british policy of Divide and rule, untouchability, casteism, communalism are still here. 😔😔🇮🇳
Those weren’t british policies
@@orionfernandes4587 They were. The British used communal (not communist, communal) politicians to instigate hatred within the masses, so that's divide and rule. The British turned the Leaders against the People, caste against caste, community against community, party against party, but most importantly: Hindus against Muslims.
I wonder if our current MPs have heard this. This speech must be printed on the first page of all text books.. what a masterpiece.
Listening to it today at the stroke of midnight after 75th anniversary,
Dear nehruji, we achieved almost you tought, we are progressive, on the path that you find for us, as a citizens we will work hard for our dreams, we joined with confidence for our dreams. salute to Our great noble ideal personality, who gives us freedom💐💐💐💐💐🌹🌹🌹🥀🥀🥀🌻🌺💐🌷🌷🌷💮🌸💐💐💐
Majority of today's MP s will not even undertstand what the PM has said in this speech
Pandit ji was courageous enough to apologize on behalf of Congress party after general election of 1952 shyama prasad mukharjee on issue of extravagant expenses on election ,not like others who mock up those who question.
Such was our first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal nehru!
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I just get so emotional. I have tears in my eyes every time. I believe Nehru would despair if he saw Indian politics today. There's a lot to be proud of, but some things could be better.
Till now, we have seen only maturity of politics on larger scales. Examine closely.
Listening to this again on 'the Teleprompter day'
Every politician of now should watch this....
They will first need to read oxford dictionary
Every student of India should watch this...!!...because God has given us the power to make the world better to live...
But unfortunately, those politicians (not all, bt max) of today can never understand the weightage of this speech...😥
listening to this speech again just few hours before independence day.
Nehru was a modern visionary scientific fellow.He wanted to make India a great nation with progressive thought
What's happening in the country today is an aberration. It'll take some time but we'll certainly be back on the correct path. Let's hope so at least.
Listening this today at the stroke of midnight after 75 years🙇♂️
0:33
At the stroke of midnight hour when the world sleeps India will awake to life & freedom.
😊😊👍🏻👍🏻
The most inspiring speech till date!!! Very Proud of the fact that we had such an amazing personality - Pandit Nehru as our Prime minister!!!
This speech should be mandatory for each & every indian to listen
Learning this speech for the declamation to be held in my school shortly after the summer break...
Wish me luck... I just hope I don't mess up
All the best!
All the best
Same!!
Hope you did well
This speech always gives me goosebumps and Confidence.
"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!"
Pt. JLN was a visionary. The ignorant people who ridicule him are a disgrace to the nation. India is one of the fastest growing nation today just because of the foundations laid by him and institutions established by him. Thats was the reason MK Gandhi was fond of him. I just can’t see pseudo nationalists Maligning the image of our great leader. HE DESERVES RESPECT.
Absolutely, it was his vision which made difference between India and Pakistan. Tribute to the greatest soul of India.
Listening after 75 years of independence still goosebumps. #Nherulegacy🇮🇳
Entered in 76th year of independence...with a vision to contribute rest of my life to make this country better.... I was born in India, I've studied in India, I will work for India in India ❤️
"At the stroke of midnight hour" these words give goosebumps to me.
Whos listening on 75th independence day like.
Happy 75th independence day 🇮🇳
Listening to this again after Teleprompter fiasco by 56 “ clown
At the stroke of midnight, when world sleeps, INDIA will awake to life and freedom.
Salute to PM Nehruji & All the freedom fighters.... And of course our Father of Nation M Gandhiji.
Who is here on 15th august 2021❤️
Goosebumps every time I hear it
Happy Independence Day my fellow countrymen 🥳🥳🥳
Listening to it today at the stroke of midnight after 75th anniversary,
Dear nehruji, we achieved almost you tought, we are progressive, on the path that you find for us, as a citizens we will work hard for our dreams, we joined with confidence for our dreams. salute to Our great noble ideal personality, who gives us freedom💐💐💐💐💐🌹🌹🌹🥀🥀🥀🌻🌺💐🌷🌷🌷💮🌸💐💐💐
If only he knew where India would had to after 70 years of independence
Yeah .
Great legend of India .
@Abhishek Chhillar Jai Bharata...Jai Sanatana Dharma
@@jsmith3980 there is no dharma associated with Bharat.
@@bbb7467 You don't know what you are talking about.
@@jsmith3980 yes, totally.
I'm feeling so fortunate to hear the words of wisdom from such a great and honourable personality 🙇🏻
Listening on 15 Aug 22 at 12. 01 am
Today, on 75th Independence Day, just want to go through all the great moments that make us what we are today🇮🇳
It's the eve of 76th Independence day. India is celebrating Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav ❤️
Listening to it today at the stroke of midnight after 78 years 😊🇮🇳❤
Listening to this at the stroke of the midnight hour after 77 yrs
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I really had goosebumps for the whole speech. Nehru is the best PM India had so far. It is tragedy that some people even sat on this great place and trying to demolish the fundamental values of the nation.
Happy Independece day guys 2022 long live India
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 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.
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. The 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 labour 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 may fulfil 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 as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
And so we have to labour and to work, and work hard, 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 anyone 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 an 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.
The appointed day has come - the day appointed by destiny - and India stands forth again, after long slumber and struggle, awake, vital, free and independent. The past clings on to us still in some measure and we have to do much before we redeem the pledges we have so often taken. Yet the turning point is past, and history begins anew for us, the history which we shall live and act and others will write about.
It is a fateful moment for us in India, for all Asia and for the world. A new star rises, the star of freedom in the east, a new hope comes into being, a vision long cherished materialises. May the star never set and that hope never be betrayed!
We rejoice in that freedom, even though clouds surround us, and many of our people are sorrow-stricken and difficult problems encompass us. But freedom brings responsibilities and burdens and we have to face them in the spirit of a free and disciplined people.
On this day our first thoughts go to the architect of this freedom, the father of our nation, who, embodying the old spirit of India, held aloft the torch of freedom and lighted up the darkness that surrounded us.
We have often been unworthy followers of his and have strayed from his message, but not only we but succeeding generations will remember this message and bear the imprint in their hearts of this great son of India, magnificent in his faith and strength and courage and humility. We shall never allow that torch of freedom to be blown out, however high the wind or stormy the tempest.
Our next thoughts must be of the unknown volunteers and soldiers of freedom who, without praise or reward, have served India even unto death.
We think also of our brothers and sisters who have been cut off from us by political boundaries and who unhappily cannot share at present in the freedom that has come. They are of us and will remain of us whatever may happen, and we shall be sharers in their good and ill fortune alike.
The future beckons to us. Whither do we go and what shall be our endeavour? 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.
We have hard work ahead. There is no resting for any one of us till we redeem our pledge in full, till we make all the people of India what destiny intended them to be.
We are citizens of a great country, on the verge of bold advance, and we have to live up to that high standard. All of us, to whatever religion we may belong, are equally the children of India with equal rights, privileges and obligations. We cannot encourage communism or narrow-mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought or in action.
To the nations and people of the world we send greetings and pledge ourselves to cooperate with them in furthering peace, freedom and democracy.
And to India, our much-loved motherland, the ancient, the eternal and the ever-new, we pay our reverent homage and we bind ourselves afresh to her service.
Jai Hind."
The fact which gives me goosebumps is that this speech was an extempore Nehru ji was disheartened by the call he received from Lahore about killing of hindus and sikh which had started on that day. He did not prepared any speech just spoke his heart out. Massive Respect. 🙏🏻
Great speech and those words should be our motivation towards a greater India!.....but i must say that in that fabled central hall of the Parliament, one man is missing...whose contribution to the freedom of India is unparalleled and that great man is NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE 🙏....he will always be in our hearts and he is an inspiration to millions of indians🇮🇳🙏💓
True. However, he was already dead long before this event.
No matter how many times you watch this .. it always gives me goosebumps .. happy independence day people ... Jai Hind
What a wonderful speech Nehru Ji. So ahead of his time.. no leaders can speak such powerful words anymore today
No matter what people say but our prime minister Mr Jawahar Nehru was a true gentleman 🌹🌹🌹🌹
Listening these Golden words at 75 th Independence Day 🇮🇳 . Jai Hind 💂. Vande Matram 🇮🇳🇮🇳
Wonderful speech by our beloved first prime minister.
Listening this on 75th anniversary of independence remembering everyone who sacrificed their lives for freedom.
Jai hind 🥰
Listening it today at stroke of midnight on 75th year of independence
Pride moments,,, great speech,, sensible words. Lots of love Chachajiii,,,
Listening to it at the strole of midnight on the 75th year of our independence 🇮🇳❤️
Best speech for all Indians. Every one should listen to it on Every independence day.
The Man, the Myth, the Legend Pt.Nehru.