Freedom at Midnight

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But freedom brings responsibilities and burdens and we have to face them in the spirit of a free and disciplined people. Jinnah (not a Cambridge graduate) would later go on to become Pakistan’s ‘Quaid-i-Azam’, or great leader, and founding Governor General. A main theme of the authors is the sheer size and breadth of the British Empire at its peak as the Age of Imperialism is about to come to an end:

We think also of our brothers and sisters who have been cut off from us by political boundaries and who unhappily cannot share at present in the freedom that has come. Jawaharlal Nehru, who studied natural sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, aspired to socialist, secular, and democratic India, while Muhammed Iqbal, also an alumnus of Trinity, saw Pakistan as a crucible for Islam’s global rejuvenation. Hemmert, Kylie (February 2021). "Mike Flanagan Announces Cast for Netflix's The Midnight Club Series Adaptation". comingsoon.net. Archived from the original on October 5, 2021 . Retrieved February 3, 2021.The series stars Iman Benson, Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter, and Sauriyan Sapkota as the eight Midnight Club members, alongside Heather Langenkamp, Zach Gilford, Matt Biedel, and Samantha Sloyan as older adults working at or living near the hospice; [3] [4] [5] in addition to their main characters, cast members also portray the ones featured in the "Midnight Club" tales. John, Squires (March 16, 2021). "Filming Has Begun on Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong's Netflix Series "The Midnight Club" ". Bloody Disgusting. Archived from the original on October 5, 2021 . Retrieved March 17, 2021. The appointed day has come—the day appointed by destiny—and India stands forth again, after long slumber and struggle, awake, vital, free and independent. The massacre of 680,000 members of that race that God had destined to govern and subdue in the trenches of World War I wrote an end to the legend of a certain India. A whole generation of young men who might have patrolled the Frontier, administered the lonely districts or galloped their polo ponies down the long maidans was left behind in Flanders fields. Attending the theater in Shakespeare's time was quite unlike attending a professional performance today. First, the theaters were of two distinct kinds: public and private. The government closely regulated both, but particularly the public theaters. Public theaters such as the one in which Shakespeare made his livelihood were fairly large open-air structures, able to hold about 3,000 people.

The era was one of intellectual ferment, in which a variety of ideologies vied for support. Several men and women who shaped visions for independent India and Pakistan were educated at Cambridge, but their dreams for the country did not always align. All of us, to whatever religion we may belong, are equally the children of India with equal rights, privileges and obligations. We cannot encourage communalism or narrow-mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought or in action." Popular culture [ edit ] The ruling elites all thought that independence and partition would cool the tempers of the people. Only Gandhi had a clue what would really happen:Years later, in a book called Freedom at Midnight, Mountbatten is quoted as saying, “The date I chose came out of the blue. I chose it in reply to a question. I was determined to show I was master of the whole event. When they asked had we set a date, I knew it had to be soon. I hadn't worked it out exactly then—I thought it had to be about August or September and I then went out to the 15th August. Why? Because it was the second anniversary of Japan's surrender.” (Mountbatten served as Supreme Allied Commander of the Southeast Asia Command in World War II, who later signed on Japan's formal surrender.) So why midnight? It is considered to be one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century. It emphasizes India’s history of being ruled for years by foreign forces and beautifully captures the essence of the struggle for independencefrom the British Empire. Tryst with destiny – At the stroke of midnight hour… Child agency simply means the power of child characters to influence and change their environment. Both Tom and Hatty are unhappy in the situations in which they find themselves. Tom is bored and frustrated at being quarantined for measles with his childless aunt and uncle in a 'poky flat' while Hatty is oppressed by life as a Victorian orphan in the house of a monstrously uncaring relative. However, through intense longing and the power of imagination, both the children manage to conjure up an escape from their uncongenial circumstances. Agrawal, Parul. "Citizen Journalism: In pursuit of Accountability India" (PDF). Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. p.9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 December 2014 . Retrieved 12 November 2014.

Freedom at Midnight is a panoramic spectacular of a book that reads more like sensational fiction than like history, even though it is all true….. The narrative is as lively, as informative and as richly detailed as a maharaja’s palace.” a b c d Reimann, Tom (February 2021). "Mike Flanagan Reveals Cast of 'The Midnight Club' Netflix Series, Including a Horror Fan-Favorite". Collider. Archived from the original on October 5, 2021 . Retrieved February 2, 2021. Iman Benson as Ilonka, a teenager with thyroid cancer who enrolls at Brightcliffe Hospice in the hopes of finding an unconventional cure Petski, Denise (April 13, 2021). " 'The Midnight Club': Iman Benson, William B. Davis Among Five Added To Cast Of Netflix Horror Series Adaptation". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on October 5, 2021 . Retrieved April 13, 2021.The project began production on March 15, 2021, in Burnaby, British Columbia, and was planned to conclude on September 8, 2021, but actually finished production on September 10. [17] [18] [19] The first two episodes of the series are directed by Flanagan, and other episodes in the season were helmed by directors Axelle Carolyn, Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, Michael Fimognari, Morgan Beggs, and Viet Nguyen. [20] Release [ edit ]