<Li> 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 . </Li> <Li> 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 . </Li> <Li> The book Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie has a reference to this speech as does the Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh . </Li> <Li> 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 ." </Li>

At the stroke of midnight hour when the world sleeps india will awake to life and freedom