On Wednesday (August 15), the world's largest democracy will celebrate its 72nd Independence Day. India, which attained Independence from the British rule on 15 August 1947, celebrates the day by unfurling the tricolour and paying tributes to its freedom fighters.
The main function of Independence Day is held at Red Fort in New Delhi, where prime minister hoists the national flag and addresses the nation. Narendra Modi will hoist the tricolour for the fifth time as the Prime Minister of India.
While the day is an occasion to reminisce every good thing that our motherland has achieved and has done for its people, it is also the time to pay tribute and respect the ones who have died for our country. India's Independence movement, which spanned over 190 years, started with the First War of Independence in 1857 to end the East India Company rule (1757-1858) in the subcontinent and then against the British Raj, who ruled the country between 1858 and 1947.
On the occasion of Independence Day, we bring you patriotic messages, inspiring quotes, slogans and more here.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. - BR Ambedkar.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made! -- Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist.
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action–
Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake. -- Rabindranath Tagore
India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!
-- Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. -- Thomas Paine, English-American political activist
You give me your blood and I will give you Independence! -- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great-grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only. -- Mark Twain, American author
If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. -- Romain Rolland, French Nobel laureate
India — the land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest. â€" Mahatma Gandhi, Father of the Nation.
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. â€" Mahatma Gandhi
Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. â€" Jawaharlal Nehru, former Indian Prime Minister
Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic. â€" Indira Gandhi, former Indian Prime Minister.
For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls. â€" Rajiv Gandhi, former Indian Prime Minister
Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.â€" Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary socialist.
You give me your blood and I will give you Independence. â€" Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian nationalist.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. â€" BR Ambedkar, economist.
Due to its rich culture and tradition we admire India as a teacher and we are its follower. â€" Dalai Lama, Buddhist monk.
India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. â€" Mark Twain, American writer.
India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay. â€" Shashi Tharoor, politician.
I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country. â€" JRD Tata, Indian businessman.
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