Independence Day India 2013 marked by a Google doodle Independence Day India is the subject of Thursday's Google doodle, on the occasion of India's 67th Independence Day. The doodle depicts a tricolour ribbon, in the colours of the Indian flag - saffron, white and green. 15th August is celebrated as Independence Day across India to mark the day that the country declared its independence from the British rule, sixty-six years ago. On the eve of Indian independence in 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru delivered his famous Tryst with Destiny speech to the Indian Constituent Assembly in The Parliament. Here are its opening lines. Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes b