India concludes Independence day celebrations with beating retreat at Wagah border

Record ID: 1632184

  • Title: India concludes Independence day celebrations with beating retreat at Wagah border
  • Date: 15th August 2021
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) SPECTATOR FROM NEW DELHI, SHWETA, SAYING: "I felt very happy after watching the beating retreat ceremony…there is a lot of enthusiasm and a positive environment here. I felt very proud after coming here, this place (Attari-Wagah border) has got a patriotic vibe and I am feeling ecstatic." BSF AND OTHER SECURITY PERSONNEL NEAR BORDER GATE SPECTATORS WATCHING INDIAN AND PAKISTANI SECURITY PERSONNEL OPENING BORDER GATE/ INDIAN AND PAKISTANI SECURITY PERSONNEL SALUTING AND SHAKING HANDS INDIAN SECURITY PERSONNEL MARCHING AND SALUTING SPECTATORS, INCLUDING BSF PERSONNEL SEATED INDIAN AND PAKISTANI SECURITY PERSONNEL IN ACTION NEAR BORDER GATES SPECTATORS STANDING INDIAN AND PAKISTANI FLAGS BEING LOWERED BSF PERSONNEL SALUTING MORE OF INDIAN AND PAKISTANI FLAGS BEING LOWERED INDIAN SECURITY PERSONNEL SALUTING NATIONAL FLAGS OF INDIA AND PAKISTAN BEING LOWERED WHILE INDIAN AND PAKISTANI TROOPS STAND IN ATTENTION/ INDIAN SECURITY PERSONNEL FOLDING FLAG/ SECURITY PERSONNEL HOLDING INDIAN FLAG MARCHING (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) BORDER SECURITY FORCE PERSON, VIKRAM, SAYING: "I am feeling very proud on the 75th Independence Day…I am proud to be a part of the Border Security Force. I urge all the citizens of our country to come and witness the beating retreat here, their chest will be filled with pide." CROWD NEAR BORDER GATE
  • Embargoed: 29th August 2021 17:32
  • Keywords: Attari Independence Day India Pakistan Punjab Wagah Border beating retreat celebrations coronavirus
  • Location: ATTARI, PUNJAB, INDIA
  • City: ATTARI, PUNJAB, INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA003EQE2WR3
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: India on Sunday (August 15) marked the end of its 75th Independence Day celebrations with a colourful and traditional flag-lowering ceremony at the Attari-Wagah border in northern Punjab state.
    The ceremony, also referred to as beating the retreat, includes cultural performances and the ceremonial closing of gates and lowering of the national flags of India and Pakistan and eventually closing the border gates of both sides.
    Spectators, including India's paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) personnel and other security personnel, thronged the galleries and sang along as patriotic songs were played, while dancers in bright outfits enthralled the audiences.
    The ceremony is extremely popular on both sides, with crowds every day packing out bleachers set up on either side of the gates adorned with large, facing portraits of their founding fathers, Mahatma Gandhi on the Indian side and Mohammed Ali Jinnah on the Pakistani side.
    India achieved independence from the British on August 15, 1947, ending decades of rule.
  • Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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