Freedom at Midnight

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All of us, to whatever religion we may belong, are equally the children of India with equal rights, privileges and obligations. We cannot encourage communalism or narrow-mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought or in action." Popular culture [ edit ]

A fan of Old Hollywood, Sandra (Annarah Cymone) takes us through the world of her film noir starring Alice, a young teen at the heart of a cluster of deaths and disappearances. There's Sharon, her dangerously curious childhood best friend; Jake, her other best friend with a big secret; and Kirk, her ex-boyfriend and Jake’s secret lover. When Jake’s diary makes its way around the school, revealing his relationship with Kirk, scandal turns into mystery and gossip into murder, with a knife-wielding, vengeful Alice behind it all. Along the lines of The Great Indian Kitchen , Freedom@Midnight also focusses on the gender-based polemics in a modern-day marriage and how a couple views that relationship. But the aspects discussed in the short film are radically different from that of the feature film. On August 15, 1947, at the stroke of midnight, India and Pakistan achieved independence from British rule – signalling the beginning of the end of the largest empire in history. All qualities counted, however, there is a big problem with the perspective. This book comes off as portraying the functioning and benevolent British Raj that sadly and unfortunately had to go due to extenuating circumstances. Shakespeare dexterously weaves these four worlds together, by having characters wandering in and out of each other's world, by creating echoes and parallels among the different groups. For example, the themes of love and transformation reverberate through all levels of the play, creating coherence and complexity. Coherence is also produced by the play's emphasis on time. The action is associated with two traditional festivals — Midsummer Eve and May Day — both allied with magic, mayhem, and merriment. To emphasize further the connections between the different groups, many modern directors of the play cast the same actor for the roles of Theseus and Oberon, and for those of Hippolyta and Titania.Tom's longing to be free from his dull life with his aunt and uncle is said to be so strong it seems that it would 'burst the walls and set him free indeed'. It is this overwhelming, and essentially childlike desire to to find a more appealing place and like-minded companions with whom to play that allows him to enter into the older Hatty's dreams. As the old Mrs Bartholomew - the landlady to Tom's uncle and aunt - Hatty dreams vividly of her childhood living with her aunt and cousins and taking refuge in their beautiful old rambling garden. It is this garden, re-created in Hatty's dreaming mind, that Tom literally enters in some enchanted hour of the night. This garden is the perfect place to play for Tom, and the young Hatty, with her fervent imagination, is the ideal companion. To the nations and peoples of the world, we send greetings and pledge ourselves to cooperate with them in furthering peace, freedom and democracy.

The book Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie has a reference to this speech [6] as does the novel Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh. [7]Freedom at midnight gives a comprehensive account of the last year of the crown rule in India and the rigid dichotomy between the 2 major religions viz. Hindu and Muslim ( written as 'Moslem' in the book) who not only molested and oppressed their counterparts blatantly but also killed each other with sadistic fury in their quest for independence ( Swaraj ). This was, in essence, the dichotomy between the fathers of the two nations that formed after the Partition of British India. Mahatma Gandhi was antagonistic to partition while Jinnah wanted a separate Muslim nation at all costs. Although Gandhi is still revered as a central figure, it is undeniably the case that at the time - and to this day - it's often the militant revolutionaries who have held the firmest grip on the imagination of the population.