It is 4pm in Mumbai on 08 January 2012.
And, I am in one of those extravagant moods that compel me to risk attempting to be a poet. So:
As our exploratory spaceships stray
lightyears outside of our solar system
As our microelectronic gadgetry scan
the fine contours of our internal organs
As our philosophers and theoretical physicists endeavour to explain
this Universe and Beyond
And our artistes dazzle in creative brilliance by embracing
Interactive technology and cross-cultural influences
What then inhibits or prevents?
Our political leaders from reconciling
petty ideological and personal conflicts for larger, wider and deeper human well-being?
Our religious leaders from refraining
inciting followers to blind loyalty in affirming their faiths?
Our business captains from remembering that
entrepreneurship and business ventures are all about wealth creation and distribution,
not just strategies in which customers and society are part of the game-theory?
Each one of us from ensuring
we seek to continuously improve our work processes and outputs
to make life better for ourselves, our customers, our senior citizens
and those fellow-citizens who are not as well-resourced as we may be!
And as we cross the hurdles that prevent us from any of the above, I am sure
We can, standing in our own small patches on this earth, excel
The performances of our spaceships, our philosophers, the geeks
and the brilliance of our creative artistes!
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