Dear Reader,
Why does the event of Charlottesville matter? Lokvani strongly believes that hate, bigotry and violence is totally unacceptable in a country that believes in individual liberty, equality for all and the pursuit of happiness. We must stay united when forces such as these threaten the very core value of this belief. Rabindranath Tagore poem is most relevant now.
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 ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Lokvani team
Anil Saigal, Nirmala Garimella, Ranjani Saigal and Anoop Kumar
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An overview of the incident:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/us/charlottesville-virginia-overview.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/08/17/the_viral_vice_
documentary_was_the_perfect_rebuke_to_trump_s_charlottesville.html
http://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/donald-trumps-charlottesville-remarks-a-disgrace-indian-americans-1738218
Events around Boston
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2017/08/14/rallies-vigils-boston-charlottesville/
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