Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free.. Into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake. 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; Into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-- Into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake. -- Rabindranath Tagore This was sung as a hymn in my school. I wonder what made me think of this all of a sudden today. How very apt & relevant it sounds even today.
Thoughts that echo like a melodic stanza