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Celebrating India's Independence Day
Respected dignitaries on the dais and my dear friends,

Let me at first wish all a Happy Independence Day.

I am extremely honored to stand before you on this special occasion, the day on which we celebrate India's Independence day. This day is to remember our great leaders for their endless resistance against the foreign powers to give us the freedom that we enjoy today.

We should be really proud to be born in this country, a nation which gave birth to charismatic leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, B R Ambedkar and Subhash Chandra Bose. It's our duty to pay homage to all those who have laid down their lives to make the country free from foreign dominance.

It was really a struggle some period for our great leaders to unite and to build a base for the development of the country. We might be thankful to a number of leaders, Mahatma Gandhi for his charismatic leadership, Rabindra Nath Tagore for his patriotic songs, B R Ambedkar for a putting a foundation for our constitution. Added to this mesmeric leadership by Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabai Patel helped a lot to unite our country under on flag.

While we look behind all the way through the fruitful years of attaining independence, it's very significant to know the roots of our achievements in different fields. Our country had made remarkable progress during the last 6 decades in almost all fields which makes us hold our head high. The esteem effort by millions of Indians during these years makes our country, one of the top developing countries in the world. Even though at present we are not to be called as a developed country, I am sure this credit is not too far for us to attain.

Even in the midst of celebrating our Independence day with pride and honour, many things haunt us. Even to be proud of this vast culture and diversity, some times these diversities may be the cause of the imbalance of proper functioning of the country. Unhealthy disputes between states, regional

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