Inspirational

Where the Mind is Without Fear

Published Jan 27, 2026
Last Updated Jan 27, 2026

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a legendary Indian poet and polymath. He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) and composed the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh.