Sunday, November 30, 2008

Where The Mind is Without Fear..

170 odd people dead..entire city & the nation traumatized..
who's responsible for it: ISI? Deccan Mujahideen? or our "nothing can be done" government??
Will our representatives stop expressing shock & giving condolences remarks & take some decisive action atleast now?
I don't understand why this is a continuing issue. Successive governments be it Congress or BJP, forget that they have head on their shoulders when this issue comes up. Is it the complacency of the leaders or that of the RAW/police babus?

I hope its the defining moment for India. We have only 2 choices: continue to kneel down in front of those irritants or stand up brave & do something about this.

Hope our leaders haven't forgotten the aspirations of our forefathers, beautifully elaborated in this following poem by Rabindranath Tagore:
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 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

1 comment:

Sac Bee said...

Forefathers!!! Politicians wouldnt even know who they are. Not sure if something happens in India about this...but something that surely happens is forward of emails, bloggers like us putting forth our views, youngsters catching up for peace march and what not. Nothing of these sorts touches our damned politicians Raghu.