Happy independence Day

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 lead forward by thee
into ever-widening thought and action-
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father,
let my country awake.

From "Geetanjali" - Rabindranath Tagore