where knowledge is free,
where the world is not broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls,
where the 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 in the dreary desert sands 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.
-Rabindranath Tagore
