Midnight as immortalized in our first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru’s, speech, delivered on the occasion of India’s freedom from British rule. The answer, I think, lies in the fact that we were Midnight’s Daughters. For, in the United States, even today, there remains a scarcity of women in science and engineering. When I tell Americans that the female friends of my youth include an actuary, an Intel engineer, and a scientist at an American national lab, they are incredulous. ![]() A close childhood friend became a gynecologist, another a lecturer in physics, a third a political activist. The writer in me was loath to stir up memories, to replace old recollections with new ones.īut as I started to receive phone calls and messages, what struck me was what a feisty bunch of girls I came of age with. He claimed to be a high school classmate who was organizing our first ever reunion. The other day, I got a text from a stranger. INALIENABLE: REFLECTIONS ON INDEPENDENCE & BELONGING.Voices Column: Desi Roots, Global Wings. ![]() We cannot encourage communalism or narrow-mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought or in action. "All of us, to whatever religion we may belong, are equally the children of India with equal rights, privileges and obligations. The declaration ends with an exhortation to work together in the common weal and cautions against narrow sectarian or religious divisiveness: ".bring freedom and opportunity to the common man, to the peasants and workers of India to fight and end poverty and ignorance and disease to build up a prosperous, democratic and progressive nation, and to create social, economic and political institutions which will ensure justice and fullness of life to every man and woman." His speech went on to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi's efforts in the Independence Movement and called upon his countrymen to work together to A moment 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." At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. Now the time has come when we shall redeem our pledge - not wholly or in full measure - but very substantially. "Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny. In his famous speech, Tryst with Destiny, he declared the end of the colonial era and called on citizens to recognize the promise and opportunity of the moment: On 15 August 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of free India, addressed the Constituent Assembly. The outcome was a mass uprising all over India with mass boycotts and civil disobedience, called the Quit India Movement Declaring the close of the Colonial era On 8 August 1942, the All India Congress Committee met in Bombay and passed the Quit India Resolution. Leave India to God and if that be too much, leave her to anarchy, necessity for withdrawal lies in its being immediate." Quit India Resolution I ask for a bloodless end of an unnatural domination and for a new era. I ask every Briton to support me in my appeal to the British at this hour to retire from every Asiatic and African possession. Complete and immediate orderly withdrawal of the British from India will at once put the Allied cause on a completely moral basis. "I am convinced that the time has come for the British and the Indians to be reconciled to complete separation from each other. Below is an excerpt of Gandhi's speech advocating complete independence from British rule. ![]() ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īlthough the militant factions of the Independence movement were advocating a complete break from British rule for almost a century, the first call for a non-violent movement led by Mahatma Gandhi was articulated in the aftermath of the failed Cripps' mission in April, 1942. ( November 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) In particular, it has problems with Missing a lede. This article needs editing for compliance with Wikipedia's Manual of Style.
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