Jawaharlal Nehru did not unfurl the Tricolour at the Red Fort on August 15, 1947.
But, in a gesture of nationalistic symbolism one that has endured by repetition over the 76 years of independent India Nehru took to the ramparts at Red Fort s Lahori Gate on August 16, 1947, unfurled the Tricolour there and delivered his first Independence Day speech.