“Where the mind is without fear and the head 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 (1861-1941,)
winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature“Tagore” sounds like “tiger” to me.
Maybe it doesn't mean tiger in his language.
Maybe it does.
But what he said was definitely a Tiger thing to say.
Do you ever say Tiger things?(Photo of Tagore taken in 1930. The Hindu mystic poet was then 69 years old.)