Independence Day Speech | 15 August Speech 1

Good morning to all my respected teachers, parents and dear classmates. Today we are united here to celebrate
The Independence Day. As we all know that Independence day is a blessed occasion for all of Indian. India’s
Independence Day is the most important day for all the Indian citizens and has been mentioned forever in history.
Independence Day is the day when we got freedom from the British rule after many years of hard struggle by our
great freedom fighters. We celebrate independence day every year on 15th of August to remember the first day of
independence of India as well as remember all the sacrifices of the great freedom fighters who have sacrificed their
lives in getting independence for India.

India got independence on the 15th of August in 1947 from the British rule. After independence, we got all the
fundamental rights in our own Nation, our Motherland. Everyone should feel proud to be an Indian and praise our
fate that we took birth on an Independent India. During British rule, Britishers have done very brutal behaviour to our
ancestors and forefathers. We cannot imagine by sitting/standing here that how hard the independence was for India
from the British rule. It took many sacrifices of many freedom fighters and Many Decades of struggle from 1857 to
1947. Mangal Pandey (A Indian soldier) in the British force had first raised his voice against Britishers for the
independence of India.

Later Many great freedom fighters had struggled and spent their whole life only to get freedom. We can never forget
the sacrifices of the Bhagat Singh, Lala Lajpat Rai, Rani Lakshmibai, Chandrashekhar Azad, Ashfaqulla Khan, Bal
Gangadhar Tilak, Vallabhbhai Patel, Mangal Pandey, Tatya Tope, Ram Prasad Bismil, Udham Singh, Sukhdev Thapar,
Khudiram Bose, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Sarojini Naidu, Madan Lal Dhingra who had lost their lives just for fighting for
their country. How can we ignore all the struggles of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi. Gandhiji was a great Indian leader who taught Indians a big lesson of non-violence. Finally after so many
years of struggle and sacrifice came to end on the 15th of August 1947 when India got freedom.
We are so lucky that our ancestors have given us Freedom from British. India is developing very fast in the field of
technology, education, sports, finance. Indian’s are going ahead by actively participating in the sports like Olympics,
Commonwealth Games, and Asian games. We have full rights to chose our govt. We are the largest democracy in the
world. Yes, we are free and have complete freedom however we should not understand ourselves free of
responsibilities towards India.

Jai Hind, Jai Bharat.

International Day of the World's Indigenous People

The United Nations’ (UN) International Day of the World's Indigenous People is observed on August 9 each
year to promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population. This event also recognizes the
achievements and contributions that indigenous people make to improve world issues such as environmental
protection. Indigenous people are also called native people, first people, autochthonous people or aboriginal
people. They are basically the ethnic groups which are the primary inhabitants of a particular region, opposite to
the groups that have occupied, colonized or settled the region more currently. Groups can be called indigenous
when they are maintaining the cultures and other aspects of early traditions related to a particular region.
This does not mean that each and every person of the indigenous population has that characteristic as
sometimes the native population become prone to adopting the colonizing culture’s substantial elements, such
as religion, language, dress, etc. Indigenous people may exhibit an itinerant way of living across a huge area;
however they are usually historically linked with a certain territory. The societies of indigenous people are
present in almost all the inhabited continents and climate zones of the world.
Considering that indigenous people mostly face threats to their economical welfare, sovereignty and approach
to their cultural resources, many international organizations like International Labor Organization, World Bank
and the United States have set political rights for their welfare. The United Nations has also declared rights of
such people for guiding the national policies towards the collective indigenous people rights like identity,
employment access, education, culture, language, natural resources and health. Indigenous population has
been estimated to be from 220 million to 350 million.