Where the minds are led astray by them into ever-widening distrust & hatred Into that slavery of corruption, my Father has let my country sleep.
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ContributeWhere knowledge is a farce
Where the world & hearts are broken upinto pieces by craters in ground & minds
Where words craft many layers of lies
Where tireless treachery stretches its arms towards deception;
Where the conning stream of treason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead patriotism
Where the minds are led astray by them into ever-widening distrust & hatred
Into that slavery of corruption, my Father has let my country sleep.
Tagore weeps.
Rabindranath Tagore’s Original Poem – Where the Mind is Without Fear.
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.
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