The grandeur of her successes and her failures

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?

-- Jawaharlal Nehru, speech to the constituent assembly, August 15, 1947

Happy Independence Day, India!

[ 14 August 2006 10:42 pm submitted by Unknown ]