Where The Mind Is Without Fear Poem by Rabindranath Tagore ...

From A. Sivanandan:

Prasanna was a searcher, an inquirer, a seeker of what he believed to be the universality inherent in the human condition. He was a patriot in the finest sense of the word − in the every sense that Tagore  evoked in his poem:

• 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.

From Gitanjali