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At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new...India discovers herself again."

A Tryst with Destiny by Jawaharlal Nehru; Speech in the Constituent Assembly of India, on the eve of India's Independence; Delivered August 14th, 1947.