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.
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Lal Bahadur Shastri gave this slogan in 1965 to honour the soldier who guards the border and the farmer who feeds the nation — the two pillars of India's strength.
Meaning in Hindi · हिंदी में अर्थ
लाल बहादुर शास्त्री ने 1965 में यह नारा सीमा की रक्षा करने वाले सैनिक और देश का पेट भरने वाले किसान के सम्मान में दिया — भारत की ताक़त के दो स्तंभ।
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Slogan given at a public meeting in Delhi, 1965
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