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Vjavasi Comedian Username: Vjavasi Post Number: 1934 Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 59.93.87.67 Rating: N/A |
http://www.narendramodi.com/post/An-ode-to-a-humbling-experi nce.aspx#comment An ode to a humbling experience... by Narendra Modi 26. February 2010 21:07 Print Pdf Friends, At the outset, please accept my best wishes for the Holi festival. Also accept my congratulations for Sachin's unmatched achievement and 600 years of Ahmedabad. "Garib Kalyan Mela", Thus ring the words From every nook and corner of Gujarat, the mystic land, Blessed by saints and peasants alike! Intermingling with people Comes easy in public life; Getting engrossed in work As a CM from dawn-to-dusk Becomes routine after a few nights! Facing the sea of humanity In the poll arena, Excitements, clamour for claps, Testing the nectar of victory Taste bland over a period of time! But no experience is more divine Than being a part of 50 Melas, Empowering not one or two, but 50-lakh needy Stand on their feet, in 60 days flat, Reaching out to the last man in the last mile! Sharing the fruits of good governance,Disbursing tools and means worth Rupees 2700 crores to the deprived, In the full glare of cameras, for records sake, Bringing back to the browbeaten a million smiles! Heard hundreds of stories, sad and solemn,Had a glimpse of the huts sans thatch, Touched the hearts of the people, where it hurtsLearnt what’s serving the Daridra Narayan, Just sowed seeds of humanity on the footprints of time! It was no less spiritually exhilarating Than a Kumbh Mela; It’s filled my pitcher up to the brim.Let this intoxicating perfume of Selfless service spread far and wide! |