A good poem everyone:Where The Mind is Without Fear
Rabindranath Tagore

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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

damn i remember my principal making me recite the poem a 100 times, for i did not say sorry for expelling my chem teacher our of my class...J nehru....dammit!!!

Nice One iZen ji,

have not digged much on RNT stuff. But my feeling is that he is/was yet another seeking the ultimate truth Like Gandhi did with his "My Experiments with Truth."

Cheers!

Uhi Rajeev,
VA, Amrika

Isn't it inspiring Rauniyarji,
RNT stuffs are amazing.Some of Satyajit Ray's movies are based upon his work.They(gandhi and RNT) differed on various issues but they were both equally talented.RNT gave the name Mahatma(FYI).Poets are seekers I think politicians though try,the good ones.BTW MG and RNT disagrred on celibacy vow.Remember Gandhi didn't have sex after 37 which was against one's natural act thought RNT.So...
Anyways
How is VA?
I lived in DC for a while.I am in MD now.

Izen,
Thats a good selection. I studied that poem in grade Eight. That was in our curriculum and it was included in class eight Englsh Gulmohar Book. I think lots of people my age are familiar with this poem. We had an English teacher, from West Bengal, who would of course promote another Bengali's poem. But, the poem is an inspiring one, especially now, to us Nepalese.

That was the whole purpose to post this poem.It is so relevant to current state of Nepal.