Explanation of "where the mind is without fear" by R.N.Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore is not only a well known poet but also a philosopher, a painter, and an educationist. He also wrote many novels, essays and remarkable short stories, actually he is an iconic figure of not only Bengali culture but also Indian culture introducing to west and vice versa. Among all his writtings today I will discuss about his greatest poem "where the mind is without fear". Actually The Bengali version of the poem is " chitto jetha voysunno",which is named "prarthana" meaning prayer. lt appeared in the volume called " Naibedya" in 1901. Later in 1911 Tagore himself translated the Bengali poem into English,which is called "Where The Mind Is Without Fear ".it was appeared as a poem in his nobel winning anthology"Gitanjali" (song offerings) published by the Indian society, London in 1912. R.N.Tagore got nobel prize for his collection "Gitanjali" in 1913 . Here is the translated poem- ...