Tagoreরবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
Poems of Rabindranath Tagore. 1 passage in the chapters come from it.
- What it is
- Poems, songs, plays, novels and essays
- Composed
- The poem quoted here: Bengali, 1901; Tagore's English, 1912
- By
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
- References on this site
- The Bengali collection and poem number, with Tagore's English version.
Poet, composer, painter and educator, and in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The poem quoted here, “Where the mind is without fear”, was written in Bengali in Naivedya (1901), and Tagore's own English version is poem 35 of Gitanjali (1912). He founded Visva-Bharati at Santiniketan, and wrote the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.
Read it in full
- Gitanjali (1912), at Project Gutenberg (free, opens another site)
Names with marks such as ā, ṣ or ṛ are explained in how to read the names and terms.
The passage the chapters quote
- My viewUnit 2 · Culture and Climate
Climate of openness and where the mind is without fear
Read it in its chapter“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; where knowledge is free.” চিত্ত যেথা ভয়শূন্য, উচ্চ যেথা শির, জ্ঞান যেথা মুক্ত chitto jetha bhoyshunyo, uchcho jetha shir, gyan jetha mukto Rabindranath Tagore, Naivedya 72 (Bengali, 1901); his English in Gitanjali 35
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