The August 15th which we celebrate as one of the most important dates in the history of our country and we call it as Independence Day. Independence Day is declared as National holiday. The government passed the Indian Independence Day on 15th August 1947.
We got this Independence because of the sacrifice of freedom fighters. Jawaharlal Nehru became the first prime minister on 17th August 1947 who hoist the National flag at Red Fort near Lahore gate in Delhi.
In every school, college, assembly and many more places we hoist our National Flag with a lot of happiness. On this day we sing patriotic songs and national anthem and speech given by prime minister and president of India and by our teachers, lectures and some of the students.
On Independence Day British India was divided along religious lines into Dominions of India and Pakistan.There occurred a big war during this partition nearly 15millions of people died.
In schools and colleges, many cultural activities take place on this day. National Flags of different sizes are assembled in many of the places to symbolise allegiance to the country.
During the celebration of the flag hoisting, many activities take place at Red Fort, New Delhi such as march fast performed by Indian army and also in singing, Drama, playing indoor games, Quiz competitions and award distribution etc.
Our National Flag is a Tricolour flag represents Saffron, white and green. Saffron represents the Courage and Sacrifice, White for Peace and Truth and Green for Faith and chivalry. There is also an Ashoka chakra in the centre of the flag which contains 24 spikes distributed evenly. Independence in India is celebrated with the National Flag salute by the 21 guns firing.
On the mid night of 15th August 1947, Our Prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru announced the Independence of India by reading his speech on ” Tryst with destiny”. He said that after long years of slavery it is the time when we will redeem our pledge with the end of our fortune.
For getting the Independence there occurred two hundred long years of struggle done by great freedom fighters such as Gandhiji, Nehru, Potti Sriramulu and many other freedom fighters. Even women such as Aruna Asaf Ali, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Sarojini Naidu, Nehru etc came out from their houses and played a great role in getting freedom.
Finally, we can quote that “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off”.