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Friends, we all are familiar with the famous words, "At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom" of the speech 'Tryst with Destiny' made by our first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, to the Indian Constituent Assembly, in the Parliament House, on the eve of India's Independence, towards midnight on 14th August 1947.

However, not many of us know, that guided by the auspicious astrological considerations of such a historic and significant event, this speech had to be completed exactly at 12 AM on the midnight of 14th August 1947, so that the holy Shankha be blown to herald the birth of a new nation at the stroke of midnight hour. The astrologers had strictly advised against any de.