“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.”
— Rabindranath TagoreGitanjali (1910), poem 35 (Tagore's English translation)
Commentary
The opening of this famous prayer imagines an ideal India of free thought and dignity. It is read as both a spiritual appeal and a political vision of an education and society free from fear.
Commentary
The opening of this famous prayer imagines an ideal India of free thought and dignity. It is read as both a spiritual appeal and a political vision of an education and society free from fear.