{"id":1982,"date":"2022-04-14T07:28:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T07:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2022-04-14T07:30:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T07:30:57","slug":"where-the-mind-is-without-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/04\/14\/where-the-mind-is-without-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Where The Mind Is Without Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high<br>Where knowledge is free<br>Where the world has not been broken up into fragments<br>By narrow domestic walls<br>Where words come out from the depth of truth<br>Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection<br>Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way<br>Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit<br>Where the mind is led forward by thee<br>Into ever-widening thought and action<br>Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awak<\/em>e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allpoetry.com\/Rabindranath-Tagore\">https:\/\/allpoetry.com\/Rabindranath-Tagore<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rabindranath Tagore [1861-1941] was considered the greatest writer in modern Indian literature. A Bengali poet, novelist, educator,\u00a0 Nobel Laureate for Literature [1913]. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tagore was awarded a knighthood in 1915, but he surrendered it in 1919 in protest against the Massacre at Amritsar, where British troops killed around 400 Indian demonstrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Tagore gained a reputation in the West as a mystic originally and that has perhaps mislead many Western readers to ignore his role as a reformer and critic of colonialism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where the mind is without fear and the head is held highWhere knowledge is freeWhere the world has not been broken up into fragmentsBy narrow domestic wallsWhere words come out from the depth of truthWhere tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfectionWhere the clear stream of reason has not lost its wayInto the dreary desert &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/04\/14\/where-the-mind-is-without-fear\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where The Mind Is Without Fear&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystical","category-spiritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chooselife.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}