"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we will 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.... We end today a period of ill fortune, and India discovers herself again."
- Jawaharlal Nehru (Speech on the First Indian Independence Day, Aug 15, 1947)
The Land we Belong
The smell of the earth;
Like the thousands of stars in the sky;
The heights of the mountain;
Like the streams of the river that mingles in the sea;
This is the land I belong to.
This is the land we belong to.
The laughter of millions of children
I hear, I hear;
We hear, we hear;
Echoes across the sky;
This is the land I belong to.
This is the land we belong to.
There is a dream in every Indian eye;
A dream I see, I see;
A dream we see; we see;
A dream we believe, we believe;
This is the land I belong to;
This is the land we belong to.
The rain comes and washes the dry sand;
There I see a name;
In the wind I hear the whispers…
My India, my India;
This is the land I belong to;
This is the land we belong to.
A Happy Independence Day!!!
A Proud Indian
Vande Mataram !
(Sanskrit: वन्दे मातरम् Vande Mataram, Bengali: বন্দে মাতরম Bônde Matorom)
6 comments:
Wishing you too a happy independence day.
How are you? Hope your are fine and all is well.
somehow i dont regret being a human being in india
Came to your site through Alexis' blog...read through the majority of your posts and enjoyed them - especially 'Memorable Past' (June 24, 2005)...
Mayenfeld:
Thank you very much for visiting my world! it's my pleasure to share my thoughts, my inner world with like minded people worldwide :)
where're you? ...so long since you last updated! :-?
Akhil,
my apologies, was bit caught up with other things.. check now ;)
btw, i might still be lousy in updating with my wedding coming up soon..
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