We are celebrating today the 63^rd Anniversary of our Independence. This day of days  dawned upon us through the vision of Mahatma Gandhi and other great dreamers, who were ready to face batons, bullets and incarceration to see their dream realized.  Rabindranath Tagore carried this struggle by a totally different means: the might of his pen. Pandit Nehru spelt out this dream in his world famous speech, Tryst with Destiny,on that momentous midnight between 14-15 August, 1947. He had said then: “Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.” As we extend our festal greetings to all our fellow Indians, we pray that this historic pledge be redeemed, in a special way, in the lives of the poor and the downtrodden in our country. Jai Hind!