<P> Where the mind is without fear (Bengali: চিত্ত যেথা ভয়শূন্য, pronunciation: t͡ʃit̪t̪o Jet̪hɐ Bhɔyʃunno, English transliteration: Chitto Jetha Bhoyshunno) is a poem written by 1913 Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore before India's independence . It represents Tagore's vision of a new and awakened India . The original poem was published in 1910 and was included in the 1910 collection Gitanjali and, in Tagore's own translation, in its 1912 English edition . </P> <P> 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 . </P>

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