mind without fear -------tagore

Mind Without Fear

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.



Few years ago i had modified the poem to suit the then current scenario.I don't think there is any change .It should be good for the present .

MIND WITH OUR FEAR

Where the mind is full of fear and the head held high;(by a hangman's noose)

Where knowledge is free;(And we are free of knowledge)

Where the world has been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;(also by caste,creed and language)

Where words come out from the depth of truth;(truth remains buried deep down)

Where tireless striving (For power and money)stretches  its arms towards perfection;(Corruption)

Where the clear stream of reason has lost its way in the dreary desert  sand of  dead habit;

 Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening chaos and anarchy-

Into that hell , my father , let my country sleep ;(its eternal sleep)