At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
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From Nehru's "Tryst with Destiny" speech: serving India means working to end the poverty, ignorance and suffering of its ordinary people.
Meaning in Hindi · हिंदी में अर्थ
नेहरू के "ट्रिस्ट विद डेस्टिनी" भाषण से: भारत की सेवा का अर्थ है देश के आम लोगों की ग़रीबी, अज्ञान और दुखों को दूर करने के लिए काम करना।
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"Tryst with Destiny" speech, Constituent Assembly, 14 August 1947
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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.
