Where the mind is 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.

- Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali)

This poem by guru Rabindranath Tagore has become most relevant today - when a government  elected democratically - is bent upon curbing every Indian's freedom, where the state has miserably failed to provide safety and security to its citizens, where there is chaos all around, where corruption, theft, murders, rapes - every crime you can think off is the order of the day, where the rich and the powerful are beyond the law, where the poor are continued to be suppressed ---- it is time my country awakes