Tryst with Destiny | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Independence Day Speech | 1947 — Transcript

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1. 0:06long years ago
2. 0:08we made a trip with destiny
3. 0:12and now
4. 0:13the time comes
5. 0:15when we shall redeem our pledge
6. 0:18not only
7. 0:19or in full measure
8. 0:21but very substantially
9. 0:25at the stroke of the midnight hour
10. 0:28when the world sleeps
11. 0:30india will awake to life and freedom
12. 0:33[Music]
13. 0:39a moment comes
14. 0:41which comes but rarely in history
15. 0:44when we step out from the old to the new
16. 0:48when an agent
17. 0:50and when the soul of the nation
18. 0:52long suppressed find utterance
19. 0:57it is fitting
20. 0:58that at this solemn moment
21. 1:00we take the pledge of dedication to the
22. 1:03service of india and her people
23. 1:06and to the still larger cause of
24. 1:09humanity
25. 1:12the dawn of history
26. 1:13india started on her unending quest
27. 1:18and trackless centuries are filled with
28. 1:20her fighting
29. 1:22and the grandeur of her successors and
30. 1:24her failures
31. 1:27through good and ill fortune alike she
32. 1:30has never lost sight of that quest
33. 1:33or forgotten the ideas which gave her
34. 1:35strength
35. 1:38we in today a period of ill fortune
36. 1:42and india discovers herself again
37. 1:47the achievement we celebrate today is
38. 1:50but a step
39. 1:51an opening of opportunity
40. 1:54to the greater triumphs and achievements
41. 1:57that await us
42. 1:59are we brave enough and wise enough to
43. 2:02grasp this opportunity
44. 2:04and accept the challenge of the future
45. 2:08freedom and power bring responsibility
46. 2:12that responsibility rests upon this
47. 2:14assembly
48. 2:16of sovereign body representing the
49. 2:19sovereign people of india
50. 2:22before the birth of freedom
51. 2:24we have endured
52. 2:25all the pains of labor
53. 2:28and our hearts are heavy with the memory
54. 2:30of this sorrow
55. 2:33some of those things continue continue
56. 2:36even now
57. 2:38nevertheless the past is over
58. 2:41and it is the future that beckons to us
59. 2:43now
60. 2:46that future
61. 2:47is not one of ease or resting but of
62. 2:50incessant striving
63. 2:52so that we might fulfill the pledges we
64. 2:55have so often taken
65. 2:57and the one we shall take today
66. 3:01the service of india
67. 3:02means the service
68. 3:04of the millions who suffer
69. 3:07it means the ending of poverty and
70. 3:09ignorance and disease and inequality of
71. 3:12opportunity
72. 3:15the ambition
73. 3:17of the greatest man of our generation
74. 3:20has been
75. 3:21to wipe
76. 3:22every tear
77. 3:24from every eye
78. 3:26that may be beyond us
79. 3:28but so long as there are tears and
80. 3:31suffering so long
81. 3:33our work will not be over
82. 3:36and so we have to labor and to work
83. 3:40and work hard to go to give reality to
84. 3:43our dreams
85. 3:46those dreams are for india
86. 3:48but they are also for the world
87. 3:51for all the nations and peoples are too
88. 3:54closely knit together today for any one
89. 3:57of them to imagine that it can live
90. 3:59apart
91. 4:01peace has been said to be indivisible
92. 4:04so is freedom
93. 4:06so is prosperity now
94. 4:09and so also is disaster
95. 4:12in this one world that can no longer be
96. 4:15split into isolated fragments
97. 4:19for the people of india whose
98. 4:21representatives we are
99. 4:23we make appeal to join us with faith and
100. 4:27confidence in this great adventure
101. 4:30this is no time for pity and destructive
102. 4:34criticism
103. 4:35no time for ill will or blaming others
104. 4:39we have to build the noble mansion of
105. 4:42free india
106. 4:43where all her children made