Of Independence, Waking up and Actions!

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 depths 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


60 years of waking up and still the trumpets are calling out, ever vigilant and noisy at the doorsteps of this huge Kumbhakarna!! These words by the eminent poet and the ardent patriot is no less relevant today than it was 60 years back..........