There is the struggle of the people for freedom with all its ups and downs and trials and disasters and there is,finally today as I move this Resolution,a certain triumph about it a measure of triumph in the conclusion of that struggle."~ Jawaharlal Nehru's speech on 22/07/1947.

to others to hold it aloft. So, in this simple form of words, there is much more than will be clear on the surface.

when we were sometimes down and out, then again the sight of this Flag gave us courage to go on. Then, many who are not present here today, many of our comrades who have passed, held on to this Flag, some amongst them even unto death. and handed it over as they sank,.

" Memories crowd upon me. I remember the ups and downs of the great struggle for freedom of this great nation. I remember and many in this House will remember how we looked up to this Flag not only with pride and enthusiasm but with a tingling in our veins; also how;

On this day in 1947.

RT @jnmfsm: Jawaharlal Nehru with Mahatma Gandhi New Delhi , April 1946.

RT @jnmfsm: Jawaharlal Nehru addressing a meeting at Trafalgar Square , London , in support of the Spanish Republicans , 17 July 1938. #Ja….

___Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ( The Indian Struggle, page number 6).

The state machinery which he built up was also based on the whole- hearted co-operation of the Hindu and Mohammedan communities. The last great emperor among the Moghuls was Aurangzeb who died in 1707 and after his death the empire began slowly to break up. ".

The great merit of Akbar was not only the political unification of the country, but what was perhaps more important, the working out of a new cultural synthesis — in order to reconcile the new stream of culture with the old — and evolve a new culture.

During the sixteenth and seventeenth century under the rule of the Moghul emperors, India once again reached the pinnacle of progress and prosperity. The greatest of them was Akbar, who ruled in the latter half of the sixteenth century.

What Subhas Chandra Bose said about the Mughals in general and Akbar in particular . " Moghul kings to unify the country and usher in a new era of all-round progress.

Respectful tributes to Durgabai Deshmukh on her birth anniversary — a distinguished freedom fighter, lawyer, social reformer, and politician. She served as a member of both the Constituent Assembly of India and the Planning Commission.

K. Kamaraj on Jawaharlal Nehru:

“ Mr Kamaraj is a notable example of a real representative of the people, grown from the people, with extraordinary capacity, ability and devotion to his task"___ Jawaharlal Nehru.

Taken from Modern South India A History from the 17th Century to Our Times by Rajmohan Gandhi, chapter number 13, Equations with New Delhi 1957--1977, page number 375. * The state was called ' Madras until 1969.

A prod for the policy was Kamraj's memory of his childhood school in Virudhunagar , where many families contributed a fistful each of rice for a common school meal".

The state spent 1.18 crore on this program in 1962__63( against under 7 lakh five years earlier), but Kamraj also secured aid from local communities and, with Nehru's help, from the American agency CARE.

By 1962__63, 12.65 lakh pupils in 27, 256 schools state wide were recieving the free meal , compared with 2.29 lakh pupils in 1957__58.

Learning that attendance in Chennai's municipal and ' Harijan Welfare' schools dropped to half on Saturdays, when there was no mid_ day meal, Kamraj steadily expanded the meal program in state run schools.