Saturday, January 24, 2009
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Journey
I cling to my solitude;
fathoming my depths, through
those inward eyes.
The wistful years pass along, and
my solitude peers back at them; some
moments left stranded, somewhere
where my life left them;
laden with the mist of times
clamouring through the silence.
My solitude enlightens me, of
the beautiful sounds that,
I ignored all these years –
breath of the wind on the panes, and
the resonance of my own heartbeat;
pealed back to me through muted space.
I have travelled far and wide;
Leaving testimonial footprints – some
caked in mud, some
washed away by frivolous waves; to be
lost in the seas of eternity.
My solitude leans on me; and
I hear what it has to say –
I venture on….Sunday, December 7, 2008
I will commence my first blog with these lines from the great Rabindranath Tagore, these lines are more relevant today than ever before.
In the aftermath of the recent carnage in Mumbai there has been a huge upwelling of emotions among Indians, the war cry being 'Enough is enough" and the politicos have been in such open public ire as never before. Everybody has a view as what ails the system. Its seems to me like some IMPOTENT RAGE. We need to stand in front of mirrors and recite Tagore's verses and see for ourselves - as a human being, as a citizen, of our country- where we stand !!
- 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
In the aftermath of the recent carnage in Mumbai there has been a huge upwelling of emotions among Indians, the war cry being 'Enough is enough" and the politicos have been in such open public ire as never before. Everybody has a view as what ails the system. Its seems to me like some IMPOTENT RAGE. We need to stand in front of mirrors and recite Tagore's verses and see for ourselves - as a human being, as a citizen, of our country- where we stand !!
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