Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth... Few days back when I came to know about a book on an Indian Business Barron on the Banned Indian Books’ List, the first thing that came in my mind were the lines from Tagore . What an irony, we live in a country, whose forefathers have dreamt about a nation without fear, about a nation with right to speech, right to knowledge; and where the Government enjoys the “privilege” to “freely” ban the books, censor what it feels offensive! Wikipedia describes Banned books as the books whose free access is not permitted. Further it says that the practice of banning books is just another form of censorship, and often has political, religious or moral motivations. In our country, banning books have got its history since the British rule days. In fact, few of the Books
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Simple and Superb..
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subtle and simple
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-Gkam
Short but beautiful ! :) Your little words spoke in volumes :)
ReplyDeletecrisp.. and asking an eternal question.
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Hey guys! Thanks for visiting my page and sharing your valuable comments :)
ReplyDeleteToo short for a blog post i guess. It's not even 140 (a tweet) :-(
ReplyDeleteThe idea was nice you could've built up on it.
Profound- the depth is comparable to a Zen poem, you've said so much in just 4 lines...any comment or interpretation I write will still be bigger!
ReplyDeleteA beautiful thought, and an outstanding entry. I must admire your confidence- under 30 words written, and what style!!
Great job :)
@vEnKy Hey! Thanks for your very constructive comment...I too thought once to continue the thoughts further, but something started overpowering me, and I felt it's better to publish this post with the very initial spontaneous thoughts only! :)
ReplyDelete@Avi Hey, thank you very much! M highly obliged that you liked my lines so much...Thank you! :)
ReplyDeleteWow, that was cute,
ReplyDeleteAnd yet so powerful!
@Tuppence Thank you! :)
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