I agree with Sir Flinders Petrie that civilisations, like individuals grow and die in a cyclic fashion and that each civilization has a certain span of life vouchsafed to it. I also agree with him that, under certain conditions, it is possible for a particular civilisation to be reborn after it has spent itself. When this rebirth is to take place, the vital impetus, the elan vital, comes not from without but from within. In this manner has Indian civilisation been reborn over and over again at the end of each cycle, and that is why India inspite of her hoary antiquity is still young and fresh.

Subhas Chandra Bose

One of India’s defining features is her ability to reform herself from within and to be born and reborn eternally.

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