Let Our Countries Awake!
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. This is an excerpt from the poem Let My Country Awake by the great Rabindranath Tagore and in the light of recent events, there’s nothing more suitable that is to be read by all the citizens of this country. Times are getting tougher every moment and the future holds even worse for us if things head down the same path that they have been following lately. The epitome of God’s creation has seen a grave downfall in the course of their actions and have started to behave like animals in the jungle. This is alarming since we are the only species that was supposed to extend life into a further new meaning and add higher and newer dimensions to the pre-existing definitions of existence and life itself. However, we have turned into scavengers. We fe