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1 1 Where the Mind
Where the Mind
is Without Fear
is Without Fear
Warm-Up
Warm-Up
The British deprived Indians of their values and rights. Robbed Indians of their pride, self-
esteem, and dignity. The India of Tagore’s dream is of a nation where people have right values,
where people can hold their head up in pride, acquire knowledge, and express their views
freely without fear. He has a strong desire to see the country and his people to live in peace
and prosperity. He prays for the welfare of the country.
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.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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