the vast marvel is to be alive

A grand tribute to the tricolour.

"For man, the vast marvel is to be alive."
- D. H. Lawrence

We gain strength, courage and confidence by each experience

School children perform during the XIX Commonwealth Games opening ceremony at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.

We gain strength, courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face…we must do that which we think we cannot.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

As are families, so is society

Indian dancers perform during the XIX Commonwealth Games opening ceremony.

As are families, so is society. If well ordered, well instructed, and well governed, they are the springs from which go forth the streams of national greatness and prosperity-of civil order and public happiness.
--Frank Thayer

Nobody can make anybody be someone

A performer rides a tricycle with an oversized turban. 

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn’t want to be.
--Malcolm Forbes

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress

A memorable performance indeed

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion; while nothing is so foolish and baseless.

--J.G. Holland

If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness ..

Fireworks light up the Jawaharlal nehru Stadium during the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games

If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness ... we shall find all its properties ... under this short definition, that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
--Jonathan Swift

A newspaper column, like a fish

Pyrotechnics set off as the aerostat rises

A newspaper column, like a fish, should be consumed when fresh; otherwise it is not only indigestible but unspeakable.
--James Reston