Where the mind is without fear...
by Rabindranath Tagore
by Rabindranath Tagore
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 to ever-widening thought and action -
Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.
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 to ever-widening thought and action -
Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.
Just when the rhetoric on both sides of the reservation divide is reaching the acme, I have nothing more to add than the above lines by Rabindranath Tagore. They talk about a vision for a nation. A vision which sadly has been dealt many blows during the course of its existence.
For further reading I would recommend the following articles, very well written, by a couple of my friends,
For further reading I would recommend the following articles, very well written, by a couple of my friends,
http://shreshth.blogspot.com/2006/04/mandal-ghost-strikes-again.html
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