"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 by thee into ever widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake"
One of my favorite poems... Takes me back to school times when thoughts and ideas were simpler, crisper, idealistic and unadultarated with confusion, fear or corruption... Maybe if India would have consisted of only school children and no adults, she would have definitely become the country idolized and worshipped by the Nobel Laureate in this poem... Or maybe there should have been a law against suffocating and murdering the child in everyone's heart in the process of materialistic aspirations (read: career,wealth, pleasures) which is so gloriously termed as "SUCCESS". But "maybe's" are part of wishful thinking. And wishful thinking does no good. That is what is taught to children over a period of 20 years of Formal Education. And that , according to me, is the precise period where the child dies, giving birth to the Man. The Man, who is devoid of dreams, innocence, courage to give shape to dreams and all things divine and beautiful. I pray to Thee to give that strength and courage to my fellow coutrymen to dream and to not let that poor child be forgotten. So that one day, some future generation can wake up in that in that free country where ,
"The mind is without fear and the head is held high" ............
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