Where the mind is without fear...

May 7 was the 150th birth anniversary ofRabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the Bengali mystic poet. Also known by the sobriqurt Gurudev, he was a visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in thw late 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.
     Tagore protested strongly against the British Raj and gave his support to the Indian Independence Movement. India and Bangladesh took their national anthems from his literary canon: the Jana Gana Mana and the Amar Shonar Bangla. Read the wonderful stories written by Tagore and you will feel nice and lifted up.
     Here is that famous poem by Tagore you could memorise:
     Where the mind is without fear and the head 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 desd 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.