Prime Minister Nehru said that the 15th of August, 1947 was the end of an age and the suppressed soul of the nation found utterance.
Midnight, 14 15 August, in the year 1947, was a moment, in the words of Prime Minister Nehru,  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.  