text: Midnight , 14 15 August , in the year 1947 , was a moment , in the words of Prime Minister Nehru , when we step out from the old to the new , when an age ends , and when the soul of a nation , long suppressed , finds utterance .
  
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  1947 was the year that Prime Minister Nehru said it was the end of an age , and the old were being replaced by the new .