Gone toh Going...

Travails of a Travail Agency.

From Zero To Hero!

Hush Stands Greenskeeper!!!

My last post - Tryst With Destiny - Continues... - was about first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's first speech, rendered on the first eve of free India.

The emphasis is squarely on 'first' and continuing in the same vein - This is my first attempt at penning a poem - an another first for me...

I would really appreciate if I can have your comments - kind or otherwise for the same.

'Tryst With Destiny' - Continues...

                                                                                               Thoughts^MIND | 2012.

"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment, we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.

At the dawn of history, India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and grandeur of her success and failures. Through good and ill fortune alike, she has never lost sight of that quest, forgotten the ideals which gave her strength. We end today a period of misfortunes and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?