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==Popular culture == * The final episode of the 1984 series ''[[The Jewel in the Crown (TV series)|The Jewel in the Crown]]'' contains extracts of the speech. * The speech is referenced in the 1998 [[Bollywood|Hindi film]] ''[[Earth (1998 film)|Earth]]'' directed by [[Deepa Mehta]]. The film portrays the main characters listening to the speech over the radio, against the backdrop of the [[Hindu]]-[[Muslim]] riots following the [[Partition of India]]. This provides an interesting juxtaposition between the realities of Partition and the optimism that followed Independence.<ref name="GokulsingDissanayake2009">{{cite book|author1=K. Moti Gokulsing|author2=[[Wimal Dissanayake]]|title=Popular Culture in a Globalised India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mXx9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA28|date=13 January 2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-02307-3|pages=28β}}</ref> * ''[[Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi]]'', a Hindi film by [[Sudhir Mishra]] that portrayed the political and social turbulence of the late 1960s and the '70s in India contains a clip of the speech and the narrative voice speaks of the souring of Nehru's dream within two decades of Independence.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Agrawal|first1=Parul|title=Citizen Journalism: In pursuit of Accountability India|url=https://reutersdev.nsms.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/Publications/fellows__papers/2011-2012/Citizen_Journalism_-__In_pursuit_of_Accountability_in_India.pdf|publisher=Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford|access-date=12 November 2014|page=9|archive-date=19 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219233818/https://reutersdev.nsms.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/Publications/fellows__papers/2011-2012/Citizen_Journalism_-__In_pursuit_of_Accountability_in_India.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> * In the 2000 film ''[[Hey Ram]]'' directed by [[Kamal Haasan]], parts of the speech are heard in the background providing the audience a timeline of the happenings in the movie.<ref name="Sarkar2009">{{cite book|author=Bhaskar Sarkar|title=Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wghFNlpM3PIC&pg=PA340|date=29 April 2009|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=0-8223-9221-6|pages=340β}}</ref> * The book ''[[Midnight's Children]]'' by [[Salman Rushdie]] has a reference to this speech<ref name="Rushdie2010">{{cite book|author=Salman Rushdie|title=Midnight's Children|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I4ITufjFf0oC&pg=PA155|date=7 September 2010|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-1-4090-2848-2|pages=155β}}</ref> as does the novel ''[[Train to Pakistan]]'' by [[Khushwant Singh]].<ref name="Singh2013">{{cite book|author=Khushwant Singh|title=Train to Pakistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2XElKNNAgyQC&pg=PA185|date=February 2013|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-14-341796-5|pages=185β}}</ref> * The speech is sampled by trance artist [[John 00 Fleming]] in the album ''One Hundred Ten WKO'' during the fifth track, "The Stroke of the Midnight Hour".<ref>{{cite web|title=Album Review: John OβFleming β One.Hundred.Ten W.K.O|url=http://globaldigitaldjs.com/album-review-john-ofleming-one-hundred-ten-w-k-o/|access-date=12 November 2014|archive-date=22 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131222192209/http://globaldigitaldjs.com/album-review-john-ofleming-one-hundred-ten-w-k-o/|url-status=live}}</ref> * The musical group ''[[Kobo Town]]'' uses sound clips from this speech in their song "Sing Out, Shout Out" from their album ''Independence''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sing Out, Shout Out by Kobo Town - Lyrics|url=http://www.lyrster.com/lyrics/sing-out-shout-out-lyrics-kobo-town.html|access-date=12 November 2014|archive-date=12 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112102125/http://www.lyrster.com/lyrics/sing-out-shout-out-lyrics-kobo-town.html|url-status=live}}</ref> *The [[Salman Khan]] film ''[[Bharat (film)|Bharat]]'' also used clips from the speech in their trailer. *The film ''[[Student of the Year]]'' mentioned the name of the speech as a clue in the treasure hunt game. *The ''Let's Crack It'' song owned by Unacademy made its intro using the actual speech voice clips. *In the aftermath of the [[2008 Mumbai Attacks]], the indie rock band, [[Parikrama (band)|Parikrama (Band)]], released a single "One" in tribute, which sampled part of the speech *2012 Hindi film ''[[Gangs of Wasseypur]]'' used clips from this speech in one of the shots featuring the character Shahid Khan.
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