॥ वन्दे मातरम् ॥

वन्दे मातरम् ॥ वन्दे मातरम् ॥

सुजलां सुफलां मलयजशीतलाम्

सस्य श्यामलां मातरंम् ॥ वन्दे मातरम् ॥

शुभ्र ज्योत्सनाम् पुलकित यामिनी

फुल्ल कुसुमित द्रुमदलशोभिनीम्,

सुहासिनीं सुमधुर भाषिणीम् .

सुखदां वरदां मातरम् ॥

सप्त कोटि कण्ठ कलकल निनाद कराले

द्विसप्त कोटि भुजैर्ध्रत खरकरवाले

के बोले मा तुमी अबले

बहुबल धारिणीम् नमामि तारिणीम्

रिपुदलवारिणीम् मातरम् ॥

तुमि विद्या तुमि धर्म, तुमि ह्रदि तुमि मर्म

त्वं हि प्राणाः शरीरे

बाहुते तुमि मा शक्ति,हृदये तुमि मा भक्ति,

तोमारै प्रतिमा गडि मन्दिरे-मन्दिरे ॥

त्वं हि दुर्गा दशप्रहरणधारिणी

कमला कमलदल विहारिणी वाणी विद्यादायिनी,

नमामि त्वाम् नमामि कमलां अमलां अतुलाम्

सुजलां सुफलां मातरम् ॥

श्यामलां सरलां सुस्मितां भूषिताम्

धरणीं भरणीं मातरम् ॥

वन्दे मातरम् ॥ वन्दे मातरम् ॥

A few day’s back, I wrote about India Poised Campaign. The Times Group has now launched a website for this campaign: http://www.indiapoised.com/

I have visited the site and I really liked it. There I posted a few questions and comments. I think I’ll visit the site more often from now on…

India Poised

On New Year’s Day, The Times Of India has launched a very beautiful Campaign - “India Poised” It’s going to continue for a few weeks and they’ll publish various articles regarding India’s recent progress and the future ahead.

Yes, India is poised.

Poised to take a breath and jump up…
Poised like a bird about to fly…
Poised at a point where a road to success lies ahead…

The Journey is so hard. But it’s not impossible. I Believe.

Independence Day: Let’s Do it…!

Let’s Do it…!

15th August… Independence Day…

Every year it comes, every year we Indians celebrate it with great joy...
Every year we attend flag hoisting ceremonies across the nation, sing patriotic songs, our hearts fill with proud to the tune of the National Anthem… (We are supposed to do so!)
Every year we listen to the speeches by our Leaders
Every year we discuss about the success and failure of our Nation

And every year my Granny says to me that I can’t know the true meaning of Independence which she does.
She is right. I can’t. Because I was born in a free India. But I know she does know its meaning. Because she knows the hardships of the Foreign Rule.

Then what is the meaning of independence? Dictionary says, ‘freedom from control or influence of another or others.’
But it is not as simple as that.
Independence is not mere political no dependence or freedom of belief, faith, or expression or other such civil rights.
In a much deeper sense it stands for ‘Self-Dependence’. It stands for ‘Self-Realization’. It stands for freedom from all tribulations. It stands for a profound peace, harmony, unity and sovereignty.

Really, being free is not enough. When I came to understand that I realized that a lot has been done already yet there is so much to do.
The world community knows India as a ‘Sleeping Giant’. The tragedy is that The Giant has remained into deep sleep for a long time. Our powers are not fully utilized- the result of negligence of the well educated Indians. For how much more we can afford to continue in the same manner?

Six decades ago, on the same day, in his famous speech from the Lal Killah, our first Prime Minister talked of the completion of a Tryst with Destiny. But along with many thousands of Indians, he knew that we were signing a new Tryst with the Destiny of Our Country. That ‘Tryst’ is still to be accomplished…

The time has come now. Let’s all rise to the occasion.

Our Honourable President Kalam has already shown us the way.

Let’s engrave into ourselves a vision for India 2020.
Let’s Dream. Let’s dream bigger. Let’s try our best to fulfil those dreams. Let’s make them into a reality.
Whatever we do, let’s do it for the Nation. Such small contributions will not only prosper our Nation but they will also give us a sense of satisfaction.

There is a long way to go and the problems are increased. Still we can do it, we ought to do it.
We ought to do it if we want to live in a more powerful India, independent of all evils like illiteracy, malnutrition, unsanitary living conditions, poverty, unemployment and most importantly, corruption.

And I believe we can do it. Because I believe in the powers of Dreams. Because I believe in our powers to alter the future. And because I believe in ‘We the People of India’
Let's begin......

What Indians say about India...

Here is what some of the Indians have said about India...


“I do not want my home to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to e blown off my feet by any.”
- M K Gandhi.

“Freedom can never be had by begging. It has to be got by force. Its price is blood. We will not beg freedom from any foreign country. We shall achieve freedom by paying its price.”
- Subhash Chandra Bose

“Even if I die for the service of the nation, I shall be proud of it. Every drop of blood, I am sure, will contribute to the growth of this nation and make it strong and dynamic.”
-Indira Gandhi

“We must realize that if we have to take our due place in the committee of nations, it will not come to us for asking, but we shall have to strain every nerve for it”
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Proud to be Indian

Here is what the intellectuals around the world have said about India…

“We owe a lot to Indians, who taught us how to count without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”
-Albert Einstein.

“India is the cradle of human race,
The birthplace of human speech, the mother of History,
The grandmother of Legend
and the great-grandmother of tradition.
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the History of man are treasured-up in India only.”
-Mark Twain

“If there is one place on the face of earth, where the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it’s India.”
-Romain Rolland, a French Scholar

“India conquered and dominated China culturally for more than 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her borders.”
-Hu Shih, Former Ambassador of China to USA


“By the end of the century the world will be still dominated by the West but in the 21st Century, India will conquer her conquerors.”
– Arnold Toynbee the great historian (Conquest-Cultural), Somewhere around the middle of the 20th Century

India on web

Here is what some of the links on web say about india.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India

CIA - The World Factbook -- India

India Travel Information Lonely Planet Destination Guide

Directory of official web sites of Government of India

India Map,Map of India,Travel To India Maps/Guides,City Maps,India ...

Incredible India - The Official Tourism Website of Ministry of ...

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