For the Indians among you, freedom for trysts with midnight’s children and so on, old chap. Happy day. Off to the big NYC parade in the morning.

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge… 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.

–Jawaharlal Nehru