“Where the heart 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 sands 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 our country awake.”
by Rabindranath Tagore, one of India’s great poet laureates, the recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1917, and friend of Mahatma Gandhi.
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This article appears in Oct 23-29, 2008.
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