Peace

About 10 years ago, Schools around the world were invited by the UNO to submit 2 lines of poetry (two liners) on peace to the United Nations. Once submitted, they were collated into one long peace poem

This came from children across 38 countries.

This is what Kofi Annan had to say in his preface, "In their wisdom, the children whose intermingled voices gave birth to the Peace Poem know that peace is far more than the absence of war. Children know that peace comes from the heart; it lives in the way we see others; it survives in the respect we show our neighbors every day."

The awareness of the need to have the world as one global village was realised by ancient Indians long ago as we see from the adages "Vasudaiva Kutumbakam" which means "The world is one family" and "Ekam Sat Viprah Bahuda Vadanti" which means "the Universal Reality is the same, but different people call it by different names".

We see with this that the seeds of globalism and freedom of thought were sown by India, thousands of years before the world was to become the global village of today.

Picture - Rama at UNO, New York