Where the mind is without fear...

"These lyrics... display in their thought a world I have dreamed all my life. Work of a supreme culture...." - W. B. Yeats



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 .

Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore - Gitanjali ( An offering of songs) - 1913