Talk:Tryst with destiny

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[edit] Vote for Deletion

This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 00:41, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Audio clip

Can anyone please add the audio clip?

This page has a Real Audio file, but it has a recording of only the first para.

[edit] Incomplete?

I think this article contains only the first half of the Tryst speech. The full speech, as I remember from my school days, is the one on this page:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947nehru1.html

However, the version given this article (i.e. the 1st half, together with a statement to the Constituent Assembly) can also be found on the net. I cannot explain it. Are there two versions of the speech? (Perhaps the first one delivered in the Constituent Assembly, and second one delivered from the Red Fort?)

If so, we have to make two decisions: (i) whether to use the longer speech; (ii) whether to move the speech to Wikisource, and make this article _about_ the speech (perhaps giving some quotes).

My vote for (i) is strongly yes, because firstly the longer version is more common (atleast in my recollection). Secondly, the second half contains some revealing lines, especially the ones referring to Gandhi.

My vote for (ii), if we use the longer version, is also yes. The full speech is too long and rambling to be reproduced in an article (1096 words, vs. 270 words for the Gettysburg address), and seems perfect for Wikisource. We could replace it with a short article giving the context and some highlights of the speech.

Warning: The text in the link above misspells "India" in the first paragraph.