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From: jis1@mtgzz.UUCP (j.mukerji)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: On Horses, Jutkas, and other things
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 13:53:27 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 24 13:53:27 1986
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> that few weeks back, I posted a request in this news group for
> places I could find a copy of Gitanjali. Guess how many of my
> Indian friends responded. You guessed it. Zilch.

I did reply to you, apparently you did not get it. However, that is not the
reason I am sending this message to you . I write this mainly to try to fill
in some of the missing and/or incorrect lines in your quotation from the
great poet. I understand that you do not have a copy of Gitanjali, and
neither do I (the English version) at this moment.  However, let me try to
fill in some of the missing lines from memory. It used to be one of our
school prayers back home. Your posting brought back very fond memories from
the past.  The poem reads:

Where the mind is without fear; And the head is head is held high
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow doemstic
	walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless strivings 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 nation is led forward by Thee, into an ever widening world of
	thought and action,
Into that heaven of freedom, 
My Father, let my country awake.

				-- Rabindranath Tagore

I am still somewhat reluctant to vouch for the accuracy of these lines. In
particular, I am not very sure about the third line from the bottom, but it
is pretty close.

Glad to find a fellow admirer of "Where the mind is without fear..."

Thank you very much

Jishnu Mukerji
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