08-19-2005, 12:51 PM
The 1984 riots were clearly inspired, instigated and encouraged by Congress Party workers. The Congress is shameless in this matter. They have the gall to dub the Godhra riot as a pogrom when clearly more sikhs were killed omn 1984. The guilty have yet to be brought to justice and justice delayed is justice denied. In the end it is a sad commentary on the state of civic citizenship in india that so many commit lawless acts at the behest of a few and for paltry monetary gain. India today remains a wounded civilization, and the land which Tagore dreams about is not yet a reality.
Mind Without Fear
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.
Mind Without Fear
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.