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'We made a tryst with destiny'
It is the 70th anniversary of the Partition. In August 1947, British India won its independence and split into two new states - India and Pakistan. Here Indian-born British actor Roshan Seth reads an extract from the speech delivered on the eve of Partition by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India.
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