A great democratic event is coming to a closure, with Indian general election results due for tomorrow. Kudos to the visionaries behind making India a vibrant democracy! Hats off to those who made this possible through decades!!
A great achievement in itself considering the odds! Human life is lost in ruthless violence around the world in the name of power, politics and religion; a deadly combination in itself
Waiting for the results, and looking ahead to changing times, Rabindranath Tagore's words in Gitanjali are resonating in my mind:
Where the mind is without fear and the head 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.
