Repost from Prof Wadan Narsey's blog: Where the mind is without fear, Nobel Laureate poet 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


Into ever-widening thought and action


Into that heaven of freedom, my Father,


Let my country awake.