If only Mr.Arjun Singh would understand this....

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 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.

-Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore

Though The last two lines of original Bengali version are harsher. They state:

"Lord Father, strike {the sleeping} Bharat (India) without mercy,
so that it may awaken into such a heaven.
Need to learn Bengali asap...too much good in bong literature to let it pass by...

1 comments:

NRkey Menon said...

Arjun singh...i donno y that guy comes in the news so much. i mean its like a 'paris hilton' thing...being famous for no particular reason. Except Arjun guy didnt have a scandolous green tape of himself...its a mystery!

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