India concludes Independence day celebrations with beating retreat at Wagah border

Record ID: 1632185

  • Title: India concludes Independence day celebrations with beating retreat at Wagah border
  • Date: 15th August 2021
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF ARTISTS DANCING BSF PERSONNEL SEATED ARTISTS DANCING SPECTATORS, INCLUDING BSF PERSONNEL SEATED VARIOUS OF ARTISTS DANCING SPECTATOR HOLDING INDIAN FLAG LOOKING ON
  • 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: LVA002EQE2WR3
  • 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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