Thursday, August 14, 2008

August 15 - Independence Day

Nehru and Gandhi at AICC meeting, July 1946
Ghandhiji Addressing people

TRAIN TO PAKISTAN; India 1947. Trains packed with refugees - Hindus and Sikhs headed for India, and Muslims headed for Pakistan - were convenient targets for gangs of killers on both sides of the border. Inadequately protected 'Refugee Specials' were typically stopped, and the occupants butchered, several times in the course of the journey.
A Library being divided at the time of partition. Heart trembles to see this sight and it is tough to imagine the state of the nation at the moment when people needed to hold hands.
The dead - Punjab, 1947

Mountbatten arrives at Delhi airport; received by Nehru and Liaquat Ali. March 25, 1947
Aug. 15, 1947: Mountbatten swears Nehru in as Prime Minister of India

1948: The news of Gandhi's assassination hits the streets. A stunned crowd gathers in Calcutta.

1948: Crowds in New Delhi wait for a glimpse of Gandhi's funeral procession.

1971: Indira Gandhi reviews the troops, in the context of militaryand diplomatic preparations for the Bangladesh War.


It is our duty to preserve this Freedom!

Carry this forward to the future!

We did,We do,We will do!!!

Set the celebration on Air, Share your Joy, You're Free to do it, Send this to every Indian, to say

Vande Mataram!

Jai Hind

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1 comment:

Bijus said...

the map of India is missing the vital part, no one can assume that POK is not the part of India, many lives has been sacrificed because of this Kashmir and publishing such a map in which half of the Kashmir is missing is really insulting the country.
In the mid of 1990s the Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled that POK is not a part of Pakistan and can not confer the citizenship of Pakistan to the people of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.