"The land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendour and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine and pestilence, of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps, of tigers and elephants, the cobra and the jungle, the country of hundred nations and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million gods, cradle of the human race, birthplace of human speech, mother of history, grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of traditions, whose yesterday's bear date with the modering antiquities for the rest of nations-the one sole country under the sun that is endowed with an imperishable interest for alien prince and alien peasant, for lettered and ignorant, wise and fool, rich and poor, bond and free, the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of all the rest of the world combined....."

--------------Mark Twain

C'mon Joey! If you wanna see the rainbow, you've got to put up with a little rain......


Dennis the Menace

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

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 led forward by thee,
into the ever widening thought and action.
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.....


Rabindra Nath Tagore