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| Rabindranath Tagore |
I finished A Suitable Boy and the story lead me on many rabbit trails looking up definitions of words, people and places in India. Rabindranath Tagore has been mentioned quite a few times. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913, mainly for his poetry.
"because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West"
However, he also wrote short stories, dramas, essays as well as songs. He was knighted by the British Government in 1915, but resigned the honor a few later in protest of British policies in India.
I have enjoyed reading his poetry and will leave you with this
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.
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