{"id":174,"date":"2007-08-15T01:30:51","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T07:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/proud-to-be-an-indian\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T01:30:51","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T07:30:51","slug":"proud-to-be-an-indian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/proud-to-be-an-indian\/","title":{"rendered":"Proud to be an Indian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is August 15th. 60 years ago in 1947, India gained Independence from United Kingdom which was a culmination of more than 100 years of freedom struggle. Quoting India&#8217;s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru in his famous <em>Tryst with Destiny<\/em> speech, I salute to the nation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance&#8230;.. We end today a period of ill fortune, and India discovers herself again. &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At 60, India is rediscovering again with it&#8217;s GDP at 10%, Per Capita Income at $734, and literacy rate at 65%. There&#8217;s a long road ahead.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"indian_flag.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/mt\/archives\/indian_flag.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is August 15th. 60 years ago in 1947, India gained Independence from United Kingdom which was a culmination of more than 100 years of freedom struggle. Quoting India&#8217;s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru in his famous Tryst with Destiny speech, I salute to the nation. &#8220;At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}