I learnt this poem in school.
For the past 6 days, the words of the following prayer from Gitanjali, written by Gurudev Rabindarnath Tagore in 1910, have been reverberating in my mind.
The poem is relevant even today, almost 100 years later.
“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.”
How timeless and inspiring…..
Sangeeta Almeida
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