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        ### Editorial: A red-letter day

        That India has at long last achieved her independence by agreement with Great Britain is a fact for which the sagacity and statesmanship of Britain is entitled to the fullest credit.

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        ### Mountbatten’s address

        On August 14, 1947, Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, addressed the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan wishing the two new sovereign nations, India and Pakistan, good luck.

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        ### Nehru’s message

        A new star rises, the star of freedom in the East, a new hope comes into being, a vision long cherished materialises, said the then PM Jawaharlal Nehru in his speech.

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        ### India office closes down

        A brief on the closure of a political institution, the India Office, in London on the eve of India’s Independence.

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        ### Presentation of flag

        We have donned the saffron colour. We have fought, suffered, and sacrificed in the course of our country’s struggle for freedom, said Hansa Mehta while presenting the Tricolour to the House.

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