Confident India moves fast forward
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007| New Delhi: Six decades after the horrors of partition of the subcontinent led to the birth of two independent nations, a resurgent India is set to observe a significant milestone in its “tryst with destiny” - a democratically vibrant nation with a secular fabric, a robust economy that is a magnet to the world and a rising power set to dominate global politics in the coming decades.
On the midnight of Aug 14, 1947, the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru made a soul-stirring speech when he spoke about the rare moment when “soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance”.
The confidence of that soul will be in ample evidence Wednesday when India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh carries on that tradition to address the nation from the ramparts of the magnificent 17th century Red Fort whose history is in many ways intertwined with the vicissitudes of empires and the destinies of personalities who have the shaped the birth of a modern nation.
And as every state capital, every district headquarter of this continent-size nation echoes the Indian capital in that celebration of freedom, it will be another bold assertion of confidence in India’s destiny, even while the people pause for a moment and remember the legion of freedom fighters who made it possible.
In the evening, a special event in the hallowed central hall of parliament will strengthen that reminder, as sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan and his musician sons Amaan and Ayaan play two favourite hymns of the man that Indians call the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi - “Vaishnav jan to tene kahiye” and “Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram”.
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