Tryst with Destiny

Tryst with Destiny was a speech made by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India. The speech was made to the Indian Constituent Assembly, on the eve of India's independence, towards midnight on August 14, 1947

“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.”

India was de novo celebrating it’s Independence day on the 15th of August this year (Sixty Second this time) ………but now somehow for many of us it was just another holiday or bestir of a long awaited ……..long weekend.

On the dawn of our 61st independence day I was conceiving my mail box and mobile phone inbox would have been flooded with advance posts or otherwise messages of friends, relatives and associates with fine wishes had it been a “Diwali, “Holi”, “Christmas”, “First day of the new year” or even a “Friendship day”, messages sent a day before would have landed the destination a day later for congestion in the network due to heavy traffic (and anticipating the same messages would already have been embedded with apologies for the same) but no message, neither advance on the eve before independence day nor any note saluting the same on the morning of independence day.

I and all of us have heard narratives of advanced, not so advanced and developing countries celebrating their Independence days with gravid conceit and respect, and it’s not that we India celebrate it anyway lesser than others but may be the cord between Indian national pride, honour and gist and Indian commoner is missing………may be and may be not………may be I am right or may be ……I am off beam.

Well I better prefer to be mistaken …..grossly mistaken !!!