Hi All,
I do not know if you guys have read this or not.. I really liked this and
sharing with you..
More about the same can be read at
http://mutiny.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/tum-chalo-to-hindustan-chale/
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There are two Indias in this country
One India is straining at the leash, eager to spring forth and
live up to all the adjectives that the world has been showering recently
upon us.
The other India is the leash.
One India says, give me a chance and I'll prove myself.
The other India says,
prove yourself and maybe then you'll have a chance.
One India lives in the optimism of our hearts.
The other India lurks in the skepticism of your minds * *
*** One India wants. The other India hopes. ** *
* One India leads. The other India follows.*
But conversions are on the rise. With each passing day more
and more people from the other
India have been coming over to this side.
And quietly, while the world is not looking, a pulsating, dynamic,new
India is emerging.
An India whose faith in success is far greater than its fear in failure.
An India that no longer boycotts foreign-made goods but buys out the
companies that make them instead.
History, they say, is a bad motorist. It rarely ever signals its intentions
when it is making a turn.
This is that rarely-ever moment. History is turning a page.
For more than half a century, our nation has
sprung, stumbled, run. fallen, rolled over, got up, dusted herself and
cantered, sometimes lurched on.
But today, as we begin out 60th year as a free nation, the ride has brought
us to the edge of time's great precipice.
And one India- a tiny little voice at the back of the head- is looking down
at the bottom of the ravine and hesitating.
The other India is looking up at the sky and saying, it's time to fly."
-*India** Poised Anthem*
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"The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The
paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes
both the maker and their destination."
-- John Schaar
