Our distinguished poet Shri Rabindranath Tagore once dreamed this for us:
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 fragements...
Where knowledge is free...
Where the world has not been broken up into fragements...
By narrow domestic walls...
Where words come out from the depth of truth...
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection...
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way...
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit...
Where the mind is let forward by thee...
Into ever-widening thought and action...
Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.
But today,
A 73 year old man in Austria keeps his daugher in a windowless cellar for 24 years and repeatedly rapes her and has 7 children by her. A man on Mira road rapes his daughter thrice a week for nine years with the consent of his wife because a tantrik told them that doing so would end their financial woes. He also lets the tantrik rape his daughter.
The girl who was raped was quoted as saying,'There were times when I had given up on life completely. When a child is in trouble, she first approaches her parents for help and protection, but who would protect me from my own father who behaved like a beast.' I would say its an insult to beasts to call her parents after them as even beasts protect their young. These people are worst. They have no right to have children. How can you hurt the very person you created? The person for whom you are responsible. And for what? Superstition? Money?
A political groups enters a pub and beats up women. A 19 year old medical college student is beaten up severely in the name of ragging by his seniors and he loses his life and his tormentors were training to become doctors! Three days in the wake of this incident a 20 yr old student in Andhra Pradesh tries to commit suicide after being made to dance nude in front of her seniors. Not even a fortnight after this ghastly incidence, another student is beaten up and has to be admitted to a hospital. A 12 year old dalit child is beaten up and thrown into the holi bonfire on the festival of holi. A female employee is murdered while she returns home from work and the assailiants go on a shopping spree with her money. Not to mention all the rapes, molestations, domestic violence, female infanticides, robberies, murders and other offences that go unreported. I could go on and on and on.
A political groups enters a pub and beats up women. A 19 year old medical college student is beaten up severely in the name of ragging by his seniors and he loses his life and his tormentors were training to become doctors! Three days in the wake of this incident a 20 yr old student in Andhra Pradesh tries to commit suicide after being made to dance nude in front of her seniors. Not even a fortnight after this ghastly incidence, another student is beaten up and has to be admitted to a hospital. A 12 year old dalit child is beaten up and thrown into the holi bonfire on the festival of holi. A female employee is murdered while she returns home from work and the assailiants go on a shopping spree with her money. Not to mention all the rapes, molestations, domestic violence, female infanticides, robberies, murders and other offences that go unreported. I could go on and on and on. What is this world coming to? Every morning I am scared to open a newspaper or watch news. Who know what horror will be churned out next? Rape, murder, kidnapping, incest, bomb-blasts, riots, religious feuds, fraud etc. etc. etc. The list is endless. And the worst thing is that all these evils are man-made. Something that we have the power to stop. It is not in our hands to stop natural disasters but we can atleast stop these man made ones.
It seems that the world is spiralling towards darkness. Darkness of thought, action and karma. Lord Krishna has said in The Bhagwat Gita that he will come down on Earth when evil increases beyond limit. Messiahs and Prophets of other religions have made similar promises to their followers. So what are they waiting for? Do they still not think we need their help if they actually exist? After all most of the religous wars are because of them so they better exist or GOD will be the biggest lie of the human world. When people start raping their own children, when people are murdered in the name of fun, when there is no security for citizens, it does get you thinking how much worse we can get.
The mind is not without fear and the head is not held high...
Knowledge is not free but can be bought...
The world has broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls...
The words come out from the depths of lies...
The tireless striving is towards greed and corruption...
The clear stream of reason has lost its way in the dreary sand of dead habit...
The mind is led forward narrow religious views into ever-narrowing thought and action...
This is the state of my world today, my father, and it scares me.
