Tag: 15 august 1947

On August 8, 1942, Mahatma Gandhi established the historic Quit India movement. Gandhiji's clarion ring of "Do or Die" in his glorified Quit India address at the Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay, loaned a feeling of a hurry to the growing increase against Colonial rule the whole country standing as one. The common choice of the Indian individuals, pushed by an enthusiasm to manage themselves and shape their tomorrow, found countenance in the significant occasions that ensued, directing inevitably to the nation's Independence on August 15, 1947. Eighty years behind Gandhiji's call to Quit India, as India marks 75 years of Independence under the descriptive title of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, let us wait to meditate on our actions. The meaning of the mantra of ahimsa fibs in the fact that it