Chitto Jetha Bhayshunyo

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Chitto jetha bhayashunyo (Where the mind is without fear) is one of the most quoted poems in India and
Bangladesh.
Written by Rabindranath Tagore before India's independence, it represents Tagore's dream of how the new,
awakened India should be. The original Bengali language poem was translated by the poet himself and was
included in the Nobel prize winning Gitanjali in 1912.
Contents
1 English text
2 Bengali text
3 History and translation
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
English text
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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Bengali text
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History and translation
This poem was composed most likely in 1900; it appeared in the volume Naivedya (J uly 1901). The English
translation was composed around 1911, when Tagore was translating some of his work into English after a
request from William Rothenstein. It appeared as poem 35 in the English Gitanjali, published by the India
Society, London, in 1912.
[3]
In 1917, Tagore read out the English version, (then titled 'Indian Prayer') at the
Indian National Congress session in Calcutta, 1917.
[4]
As in most of Tagore's translations for the English Gitanjali, almost every line of the English rendering has
been considerably simplified. Line 6 in the English omits a reference to manliness (d, pouruSh), and
the stern ending of the original, where the father is being enjoined to "strike {the sleeping} nation without
mercy," has been softened.
This poem has inspired Indians with its image of a free-thinking, undivided, dynamic nation, and often
appears in textbooks. "Chitto J etha Bhayshunyo" is also popular among liberals in Bangladesh.
See also
Freedom of thought
Independence Day (India)
National revival
References
^ Sisir Kumar Das, ed. (1994). The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, v.1: Poems. Sahitya Akademi.
ISBN 81-7201-547-X. p. 53
1.
^ rabIndra rachanAbalI (West Bengal govt centenary edition) v.1 p. 894 (* (7
)
2.
^ Sisir Kumar Das, ed. (1994). The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, v.1: Poems. Sahitya Akademi. p. 9 3.
^ Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, rabIndrajIbanIkathA, 1981, p.104 4.
External links
Quoted by the Prime Minister (http://pib.myiris.com/speech/article.php3?fl=02031309955) at
VISHWA BHARATI UNIVERSITY (15-Dec-2001)
Quoted at the 66th Session of the Indian History Congress (http://speakerloksabha.gov.in/Speech
/SpeechDetails.asp?SpeechId=137)
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high (http://www.nitibhan.com/perspective
/2006/02/where_the_mind_.html)
Where the Mind is Without Fear (http://www.outlookindia.com/mad.asp?fodname=20041122&
fname=Making&sid=1)
Bengali Songs - Rabindra Sangeet (http://www.calcuttaweb.com/gaan/rabindra/index.shtml)
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