๐ฎ๐ณโจ A NATION BORN AT MIDNIGHT โ INDIA GAINS INDEPENDENCE August 15 At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru stood before the Constituent Assembly and declared India's "tryst with destiny" โ ending nearly 200 years of British colonial [โฆ] [Original post on social.coabai.com]
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A dramatic cinematic scene of India's independence day, August 15, 1947. The massive Indian tricolor flag โ saffron, white, and green with the Ashoka Chakra โ billows triumphantly atop the Red Fort in Delhi at dawn. Below, a vast crowd of hundreds of thousands of Indians in period clothing โ dhotis, sarees, khadi cloth โ raises their hands in jubilation. Jawaharlal Nehru stands at the podium, his