We are what we are!
whenever I read Tagore's great poem "Where the mind is without fear" many times I used to wonder what he meant by "where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into dreary desert sand of dead habit!" .After seeing the see-saw matches in Maha politics I come to realise that habits die hard and we repeat the same mistakes again and again , thinking that this time it is different.
Beyond politics Tagore is relevant for Swaach Bharat mission also- "Where we tread without fear and the head is held high, where the potholes are filled and the manholes are closed dry, where the citizens do not spit and the litter is not thrown on the way, where the roads are levelled and rules of the traffic people obey, where the corrupt realise their wicked way, where the clear stream of future of young indians has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of unemployed, Into that land of dream GDP and heaven ..."
whenever I read Tagore's great poem "Where the mind is without fear" many times I used to wonder what he meant by "where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into dreary desert sand of dead habit!" .After seeing the see-saw matches in Maha politics I come to realise that habits die hard and we repeat the same mistakes again and again , thinking that this time it is different.
Beyond politics Tagore is relevant for Swaach Bharat mission also- "Where we tread without fear and the head is held high, where the potholes are filled and the manholes are closed dry, where the citizens do not spit and the litter is not thrown on the way, where the roads are levelled and rules of the traffic people obey, where the corrupt realise their wicked way, where the clear stream of future of young indians has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of unemployed, Into that land of dream GDP and heaven ..."
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