Dear Readers,
Wishing you all a wonderful Happy July 4th !
On this day of celebration of freedom we wanted to share with you a wonderful poem by Rabindranath Tagore that is very relevant even now
Let My Country Awakeâ€
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.
The original Bengali language poem, “Chitto jetha bhayashunyoâ€, was published in 1910 and included in the collection Gitanjali by Tagore.