India’s 75th Republic Day! (Jan 26th)

India’s 75th Republic Day!!! (January 26th 2024)

Once again I prayed, Tagore’s prayer/poem Gitanjali 35

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.

The communal riots between Hindus and Muslims only show how far we are from this ideal India.