INDIA – EMPIRE OF THE SPIRIT

“The morning light has flooded my eyes – this
is Your message to my heart. Your face is bent
from above, Your eyes look down on my eyes, and
my heart has touched Your feet.”

.                                        Rabindranath Tagore

This post has originated a long time ago; a portrait of Gandhi hung on the wall of our living room when I was growing up, and the works of Rabindranath Tagore were on my desk. They came with me when I settled in England, and I often read his exquisitely beautiful prose and poetry, which gave him worldwide acclaim and the Nobel Prize for Literature. His spiritual writing filled me with deep respect and admiration for India and its people.

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