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Happy Independence Day 2025: Top quotes to share
"Satyamev jayate"- Madan Mohan Malviya
'Sare Jahan Se Achha Hindustan Hamara' – Muhammad Iqbal
'Vande Mataram' – Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
"The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of the British rule in India." - Lala Lajpat Rai
"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people." - Mahatma Gandhi
'Freedom of mind is the real freedom." - Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom." - Jawaharlal Nehru
"If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland." - Chandra Shekhar Azad
'Inqlaab Zindabad'- Shaheed Bhagat Singh
"We end today a period of ill fortune, and India discovers herself again." - Jawaharlal Nehru
"The best road to progress is freedom's road." - Mahatma Gandhi
'Tum Muje Khoon Do, Mai Tumhe Azadi Dunga' – Subhash Chandra Bose
What is the meaning of freedom? It is the right to enjoy the fruits of our labor, to shape our destiny, and to live our own lives in our way, according to our ideals. Subhas Chandra Bose
"Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it." - Bal Gangadhar Tilak
"In attaining our ideals, our means should be as pure as the end"- Dr Rajendra Prasad
"Citizenship consists in the service of the country." - Jawaharlal Nehru
"Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper." - Swami Vivekananda
'One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.' - Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
"Dushman ki goliyon ka hum samna karenge, Azad hee rahein hain, Azad hee rahenge" - Chandra Shekhar Azad
"The sword of revlution is sharpened on the whettingstone of ideas"- Bhagat Singh
'So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.' – B.R. Ambedkar
'We have believed, and we do believe now that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible.' - Indira Gandhi
'Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil me hai, dekhna hai zor kitna baazu-e-qaatil me hai' – Ramprasad Bismil
'You give me your blood and I will give you Independence!' - Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
'It is easy to kill individuals, but you cannot kill the ideas. Great empires crumbled, while the ideas survived.' - Bhagat Singh
'Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.' - Jawaharlal Nehru
Happy Independence Day 2025: Top wishes, messages to share
Wishing you a day filled with pride, unity, and gratitude. Happy Independence Day 2025!
Let's honour the sacrifices that earned us freedom and work to keep it strong.
May the courage of our heroes inspire us to build a brighter tomorrow. Jai Hind!
Our freedom is written in blood, sweat, and sacrifice — let's cherish it always.
Wishing you a proud and joyous Independence Day — today we stand tall as one nation.
May this day remind us that unity is our greatest strength. Happy Independence Day 2025!
Let's carry the torch of patriotism and pass it to the next generation.
Proud to belong to a nation where dreams take flight. Happy Independence Day!
May the spirit of liberty always burn bright in our hearts.
Today we celebrate the day that gave us wings to fly. Happy Independence Day 2025!
Wishing you peace, prosperity, and endless pride in our great nation.
May our tricolour always wave high in the sky of freedom. Jai Hind!
We celebrate not just our past, but our promise to the future.
Let's guard our freedom with love, unity, and strength. Happy Independence Day!
May this Independence Day 2025 inspire you to dream big for our country.
Freedom is our birthright — today we salute the courage that secured it. Happy Independence Day 2025!
Let's honour our past, cherish our present, and build a better future. Jai Hind!
Freedom is not just a privilege, but a responsibility — let's protect and treasure it.
Saluting the heroes who gave us the priceless gift of freedom. Happy Independence Day 2025!
May patriotism and unity shine brightly in every heart. Happy Independence Day!
Happy Independence Day 2025: Top Instagram captions to share
Born to be free, proud to be Indian
Dreaming in tricolour, shining with patriotic light
Unity in our hearts, freedom in our soul
Our freedom story will always be my favourite chapter
Draped in the colours of the tricolour
Standing tall, standing proud – Happy Independence Day!
Liberty suits us well
Patriotic vibes, always
Honouring the past, embracing the future
Keeping the flame of freedom alive
When the flag rises, so does my pride
Wearing my patriotism proudly
Courage, unity, freedom – that's my India
Born under the tricolour, living for the tricolour
The spirit of independence burns bright in my heart
Proud to be Indian – now and forever
Tricolour spirit, patriotic pride
Freedom suits us best
Together, for a stronger and brighter India
Born free, living proud
Freedom is priceless – protect it always
Saluting the tricolour, saluting the heroes
Today we celebrate courage, unity, and hope
United we stand, proud we feel
Independence is the heartbeat of our nation
Freedom is the song my heart sings today
Honouring every hero who gifted us freedom
Our liberty is precious – let's guard it together
Today, every heartbeat says Jai Hind
Flying the tricolour high with pride
Freedom is earned, never given
The story of our freedom inspires every step I take
A proud citizen of a proud nation
Patriotism is my favourite feeling
Every sunrise in free India is a blessing
Saluting the courage that shaped our destiny
Freedom is a duty, not just a right
Our unity is our weapon, our pride is our shield
India – my heart beats for you
May the tricolour guide us always towards peace and progress
Happy Independence Day: Top images to share
Independence Day is far more than just a public holiday — it is a powerful reminder of India's remarkable journey from oppression to liberty. It reflects the courage of those who rose against injustice, the vision of leaders who dreamt of a free nation, and the unity of citizens who turned that dream into reality.On Friday, 15 August 2025, India will celebrate its 79th Independence Day (Swatantrata Diwas), honouring the nation's long and determined struggle to break free from centuries of British colonial rule. It is a day to remember the countless sacrifices, unyielding courage, and unwavering dedication of our freedom fighters and national heroes who fought tirelessly to secure our independence.This day also holds the memory of the Partition of 1947 — a defining moment that reshaped the subcontinent. On 15 August 1947, India's first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, unfurled the tricolour at the Lahori Gate of the Red Fort in New Delhi, heralding the dawn of a new era for an independent India.As we mark Independence Day 2025, let us celebrate the hard-earned freedom we cherish today, honour the unity that binds us as a people, and renew our commitment to safeguarding the integrity, sovereignty, and progress of our great nation.To help you share the spirit of freedom, here are heartfelt Independence Day wishes , inspirational quotes, uplifting messages, creative Instagram captions, and patriotic WhatsApp status updates for your family, friends, and colleagues.
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A lost ledger of Delhi's history of diplomacy
On a December afternoon in 1955, Soong Ching-ling – known better as the 'Mother of Modern China' – stood beneath the high grand Victorian Edwardian-style arches of Chandni Chowk's Town Hall, bathed in the warmth of applause. The Town Hall's visitors' book with the signature of Queen Elizabeth. 'India, China. Two nations resurgent. Peking, New Delhi. The new Asia arising. Peace, Friendship. One Billion Pairs of hands. Your protectors! Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai. Hindi-Chini Bhai,' she wrote in the Town Hall's visitors' book in Chinese, sealing the moment with the optimism of the short-lived Hindi-Chini friendship of the 1950s. Soong, an honorary president of the People's Republic of China and a revolutionary figure in her own right, had come to New Delhi in the dawn years of India's independence. Back then, Delhi's Town Hall was more than a civic building – it was the city's diplomatic salon. Under its colonnades, mayors welcomed presidents, poets, and heads of state. Civic receptions were staged with the gravity of statecraft: symbolic keys to the city exchanged hands, garlands draped over shoulders, abhinandan patra (formal letters of congratulations) read aloud as cameras clicked. For decades, those encounters seemed to live only in fading photographs, and in the faint memories of dignitaries and of the officials who were part of these meetings. Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, in the centre, flanked by DMC president Ram Niwas Agarwal on right and Jawaharlal Nehru on left, in Delhi in November 1956. (Photo courtesy: Mahika Agarwal) Then, during a routine record room cleanup last year, a municipal heritage team stumbled upon a piece of history. A battered, leather-bound visitors' book. Its spine cracked, its pages foxed and crumbling, the ledger held in its hand-inked lines the ghost of an era — signatures, messages, and sketches from foreign dignitaries who passed through Delhi from the 1950s to the 1980s. 'It's a treasure,' said a senior official from the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), which is now restoring the book. 'Every page tells you what the world thought of India in those formative years, and how Delhi presented itself to that world.' The first pages record Soong Ching-ling's flourish in 1955, followed by a neat November 1956 note from Zhou Enlai, China's premier. He wished for the 'peaceful construction' and 'long friendship' of two nations, ending with 'Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai' in carefully brushed Chinese characters — hope inked just years before the 1962 border war would shatter it. Two lines down, a royal signature: Haile Selassie, the Ethiopian emperor whose reign bridged the colonial and post-colonial worlds. His 1956 visit was steeped in solidarity. Ethiopia still remembered India's support during Italy's brutal occupation two decades earlier. Selassie came to speak with then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru about African and Asian decolonisation, Delhi at that moment being the nerve centre of what is now known as the Global South. On India's foreign policy through the 1950s and '60s, the Indian Council for World Affairs (Sapru House) publication on '75 years of Indian foreign policy' writes: 'The colonial experience also helped India in that sense to develop an independent approach to international relations. And the significance that was attached, for example, to anti-racial campaigns, anticolonial campaigns, anti-apartheid, those struggles, and, of course, the complete focus on decolonisation..' These grand gestures often unfolded under the watch of Ram Niwas Agarwal, president of the Delhi Municipal Committee from 1954 until 1958, just before the creation of the unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). His granddaughter, Mahika Agarwal, has preserved photographs in a family album she calls Bauji's Delhi: her grandfather alongside Nehru and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia; her grandmother welcoming Soraya, the Empress of Iran, in February 1956; her grandfather greeting Queen Elizabeth. Also among these photographs are of Zhou signing the book, flanked by Nehru and a young Dalai Lama in 1956 – three years before the Tibetan leader fled to India and sought refuge. In the visitors' book, Tito's own words appear – a typewritten note from November 15, 1956, during the UNESCO General Conference held in Delhi: 'The days which we spend in New Delhi will remain as an unforgettable memory in our minds. The warm and cordial reception given to our delegation by the citizens of this beautiful and blooming city has left a deep and pleasant impression on us.' DMC president Ram Niwas Agarwal greets Soraya, the Empress of Iran, in Delhi in February 1956. (Photo courtesy: Mahika Agarwal) The 1956 UNESCO conference, which was the first to be held east of the Mediterranean, transformed Delhi into a diplomatic amphitheatre. For a month, global faces, ministers and intellectuals debated science, education, and culture even as the Suez Crisis and Hungarian Revolution shook the world. Tito's friendship with India would later be immortalised in the naming of Josip Broz Tito Marg in south Delhi. The ledger, which became a chronicler of that historic summit, reads like a roll call of mid-century history. There is Nehru's own signature in 1955, then President Rajendra Prasad's in the same year, Japanese PM Nobusuke Kishi in 1957, Harold Macmillan and his wife in 1958, New Zealand's PM Keith Holyoake, and Mohammad Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan, in February 1958. In 1959, Edwina Mountbatten – the last Vicereine of India – signed her name during a visit from then Burma, a reminder of the colonial past still within living memory. The Town Hall's embrace was not limited to politics. On November 21, 1957, Marian Anderson – the celebrated African American contralto whose voice became a weapon against segregation – is found mentioned as well. Anderson was a poignant figure in American civil rights movement. Two decades earlier, barred from performing before an integrated audience in Washington, Anderson had sung instead on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in a concert arranged by Eleanor Roosevelt. By 1957, she was a goodwill ambassador for the US State Department, touring Asia. In Delhi, under the gaze of Gandhi's statue behind Town Hall, she performed 'Lead Kindly Light' – the first Westerner to sing at his memorial. Archival footage shows Delhiites in woollen shawls, rapt and still as her voice rose into the winter air. Some entries, meanwhile, are more surprising, especially in hindsight. In 1974, a young Saddam Hussein – the then deputy leader of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council – filled half a page in Arabic, praising 'shared experiences and historic relationships' between the two nations. At that moment, he was a rising regional figure; decades later, his name would be synonymous with war and dictatorship. By the late 1970s, the tone of the book changes. Many entries are signed not by presidents and premiers but by committee members, bureaucrats, and cultural delegations. Pages are missing, torn, or water-damaged. Officials suspect the gaps conceal other major visits – or perhaps that they were lost during Delhi's political upheavals in the 1980s and '90s, when the municipal corporation itself was suspended for years. Today, about 140 pages have been painstakingly restored. Conservators humidify the brittle paper, flatten creases, and reinforce torn corners with Japanese tissue. The fragile handwriting – from elegant calligraphy to hurried scrawls to foreign scripts – is being digitised, each name cross-referenced with municipal archives, newspaper clippings, and family collections. Photographs and, where possible, film footage are being sourced to accompany the book in a planned municipal museum gallery. Saroj Kumar Pandey, a conservator working on the conservation project, said that such brittle papers with handwritten notes using ink require extra care. 'Paper has not strengthened and torn pages are are filled in with Japanese rice paper. We use gluten-free starch as an adhesive. Each paper is tested through bleeding test and ink signatures are stabilised using chemicals after removing stains.' Since then, the visitors book has been sent back to the MCD. 'This was a time when the city, through its mayor, was part of international diplomacy,' said a municipal heritage official. 'Receptions were held not just in Town Hall, but at Ram Lila grounds, even at the Red Fort. These events were grand, with schoolchildren, music, and pageantry – they were meant to tell the world what Delhi stood for.' In Chandni Chowk, Town Hall stands restored on the outside, its mustard-yellow façade bright against the jostle of traders and rickshaws. Inside, the council chambers are silent. But in the ledger's pages, Delhi's voice is vivid – hopeful, confident, eager to be seen. The rediscovered visitors' book is more than civic memorabilia. It is an atlas of mid-century diplomacy mapped onto one city's address book. And in that sense, the book is not only a record of who came to Delhi, but of how Delhi imagined itself – as a Capital not just of India, but the epicentre of the post-colonial world.
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Gurugram marks Independence Day with patriotic fervour and community spirit
Gurugram celebrated the 79th Independence Day on Friday with a vibrant display of patriotism, unity, and cultural pride. The district-level celebrations, held at Tau Devi Lal stadium in Sector 38, were presided over by Haryana agriculture and farmers' welfare minister Shyam Singh Rana, who hoisted the national flag, inspected the ceremonial parade, and took the salute. Girls of Bhagwati Arsh Kanya Gurukul perform Mallakhamb during the 79th Independence Day celebrations at Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Gurugram Sector 38 on Friday. (Parveen Kumar/HT Photo) The event featured cultural performances, a salute to freedom fighters, and community-led festivities across the city, underscoring the spirit of 'Azadi ka Amrit Kaal.' In his address, Rana saluted the bravery of India's armed forces, recalling Operation Sindoor — a decisive military strike that destroyed nine terrorist bases inside Pakistan — and Operation Mahadev, in which perpetrators of the Pahalgam attack were neutralised. 'These operations are proof that India will no longer remain silent in the face of terrorism. Every citizen must stand united to protect the nation's honour, security, and integrity,' said Rana. Rana also envisioned Gurugram as a future hub for both economic activity and eco-tourism, announcing projects such as the country's largest jungle safari in the Aravalis, a Central Park-inspired 'Anand Van', an international conference centre, a grand aquarium, and a world-class Disneyland-style attraction. The minister paid tribute at the Shaheed Smarak in the zila parishad hall complex, honouring freedom fighters and their families. Over 3,000 schoolchildren participated in the celebrations, with performances including yoga demonstrations, Krishna Leela, Rajasthani folk dances, and Haryana's vibrant cultural showcases. The parade, led by assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Abhilaksh Joshi, drew applause for its discipline and grandeur, with participating schools awarded ₹3 lakh in recognition of their efforts. Patriotism across communities Many housing societies across Gurugram marked Independence Day by honouring war veterans and retired army officers. Beyond the official ceremony, Gurugram's neighbourhoods came alive with community-driven Independence Day events. Amit Jindal, RWA president of Vipul Greens, Sector 48, said, 'We celebrated the day with senior citizens and children, organising competitions, patriotic songs, and dances. It was heartwarming to see three generations come together to honour our country.' In Sector 50, Fresco Apartment RWA president Nilesh Tandon remarked, 'Our celebrations brought together residents from all walks of life. The flag hoisting was the proudest moment, and the cultural performances by our children truly reflected our unity in diversity.' Central Park residents gathered for an early-morning flag hoisting followed by songs, dances, and cultural skits. 'Independence Day here is a community tradition here,' said a resident. 'We celebrate like one big family.' At Iris Broadway, executive director Aman Trehan said, 'Every festival here is celebrated with enthusiasm. This Independence Day, we honoured 79 years of freedom while promoting wellness and community bonding. The turnout was incredible, and the spirit unmatched.' Ambience Mall marked the occasion with 'Humare Rakshak,' an installation paying tribute to India's armed forces. Featuring scale models of the S-400 missile launcher, Akash, BrahMos, and Pichora missiles, as well as fighter jets like the Sukhoi Su-30MKI, Rafale, MiG, and Mirage 2000, the display was crafted from upcycled materials. Arjun Gehlot, director of Ambience group, said, 'True patriotism is purposeful action. This installation honours the resilience and service of our defence forces while promoting sustainability.'
