Voices of Independent India
Broadcast · 1946 · Twice weekly
All India Radio
All India Radio · 1946–1952
Broadcasts
5
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1946
The run
- Network
- All India Radio
- Years active
- 1946–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 5
- Genre
- news
Historical Speeches The First Servant of the Indian People Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru First Broadcast to the Nation as Prime Minister Audio Source: All India Radio Fellow Countrymen, it has been my privilege to serve India and the cause of India's freedom for many years. Today I address you for the first time officially as the First Servant of the Indian people, pledged to their service and their betterment. I am here because you willed it so and I remain here so long as you choose to honour me with your confidence. We area free and sovereign people today and we have rid ourselves of the burden of the past. We look at the world with clear and friendly eyes and at the future with faith and confi Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive.
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