14th November mark as the children's day and on this occassion who can we forget nation's chacha Nehru. It's the 128th birth anniversary of country's first Prime Minsiter,Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. While the children of today's generation would not remember the man or his achievements but they really do remember his birthday for it is celebrated as Children's Day across the country.
Children Day or Bal Diwas, in Hindi, is often a day when students across schools enjoy various activities, participate in debates, etc. While there is no real documented reason, Pandit Nehru is popular as Chacha Nehru. We explore the many stories behind the coinage of the term Chacha Nehru and why Pandit Nehru's birth anniversary was chosen as Children's Day.
On the occassion of Chacha Nehru's birthday here are his most stirring quotes from the speech that is considered to be one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century:
1. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
2. 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.
3. We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?
4. Freedom and power bring responsibility. The responsibility rests upon this Assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India.
5. As long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
6. Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity.
7. We have to build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell.
8. We shall never allow that torch of freedom to be blown out, however high the wind or stormy the tempest.
9. All of us, to whatever religion we may belong, are equally the children of India with equal rights, privileges and obligations.
10. India, our much-loved motherland, the ancient, the eternal and the ever-new, we pay our reverent homage and we bind ourselves afresh to her service.