Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Incredible India


(Picture taken in 1968, but the hands are now a billion, and they are larger.)



picture from a BMW ad


(I learned this poem, by Kavi Pradeep from the film Naastik, as a boy)

Dekh tere sansaar ki halat
Kya ho gayi bhagwan
Kitna badal gaya insaan

Suraj na badla
Chand na badla
Na badla aasmaan
Kitna badal gaya insaan
Kitna badal gaya insaan...

Look at the state of your creation:
What has happened, O God?
How much man has changed!

The sun has not changed,
Nor has the moon
Nor the sky,
But how much man has changed,
How much man has changed!

(see the remaining lyrics here)

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