Resonance in thoughts - a medium to propagate inspiration.

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 - Where the Mind is Without Fear , Rabindranath Tagore. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach for another is to risk involvement. To expose your ideas, your dreams,before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying. To believe is to risk despair. To try is to risk failure. But

The idea of applying for host had germinated even while I was in Imperial in 2006/7. It took more than two years to take root. The idea of soaking in british culture and getting to know more about english people has always been high on my agenda. And host provides just that. So with a glimmer of light visible at the end of the phd tunnel, and effectively an end to the bliss state of life called 'student-life' in sight, I decided to apply for host in September this year. The application moved swiftly and I was intimated that my 'host' family would be somewhere in Wales. After a lull in communication for a while, I finally learnt (towards the end of september) that I would be hosted by the Nocks. Now the Nocks are a joint family - Roland and Margaret in their 40s, 18-yr old son michael, 16-year old Rachel, a dog, 6 ducks, 3 ducklings, 3 rats. or so I was told in the introductory mail. I was immidiately excited. On calling up Roland, I realised that Roland and Rachel had

जसं politics चे महत्व कळायला ’ रंग दे बसंती ’ बघायची गरज नव्हती, तसं आयुष्या वर नेहमी हसायच असतं हे उमगायला England मधे यायची गरज नव्ह्ती. A teachers work, at any rate, is not to put a lid on a pupils' imagination. School is a place where both teachers and students learn - teachers through students questions, students through teachers answers. जसा समाजाचा बदल घरातून सुरु होतो, माणसाचा बदल मनातून सुरु होतो.