Tagore -طاغور

I have mentioned Tagore طاغور in my two mocking poems titled "Hindi Mash-hoor" prt1, prt2. He was a famous poet in India. He won The Nobel Prize in Literature as the first asian to win a Nobel prize. He was born and died in ( 1861 – 1941).

From Wikipedia:
"Tagore's richest legacy for today's polarized world is perhaps his eloquent denunciation of Nationalism"

"he said: "The moment is arising when you also must find a basis of unity which is not political. ... There is only one history - the history of man. All national histories are chapters in the larger one"
His Dream of Internationalism not Nationalism.

A Poem by him:( The mind 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

Note: Very Good Poem, I love it. However, it's said that it's written to describe the indepedence of India from Britan!...and politician activitists in india use this poem alot. Even Though It is as they say, I disagree especially When I read the line "Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls"...it makes me feel the anti-nationalist thinking.
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