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Where the Mind is Without Fear

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.

- Rabindranath Tagore

About the author

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is one of the best known Indian writers, who wrote both in his mother tongue Bangla and in English. He was a poet, playwright, novelist, painter, educator and musician. He translated a collection of his poems, 'Gitanjali', which was published in 1912. In 1913 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He is the author of the Indian National Anthem as well as the National Anthem of Bangladesh.

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