Celebrations in State Capitals: In the States, the Governors take the salute, and in Taluqas and administrative headquarters on same procedure is adopted.
Celebrations at Other Important Places With Patriotic fervor: Republic Day is celebrated with patriotic fervor at other important places across the country. Officially, Republic Day is celebrated all over the country - national capital, state capitals, municipal corporations, panchayats, and other official agencies. At the level of the people, it is observed in homes, housing colonies, schools, colleges and institutions of every kind.
The celebration mood lasts for one week. It consists of the ground preparations, rehearsals, the main display and spills over to the ‘Beating of Retreat’ on January 29, a day before Martyrs Day which marks the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
Keep your head high. Read the Poem by Rabindranath Tagore:
LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where the words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action -
- Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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