Today that is May 7th is the birthday of great man Rabindranath Tagore (May 7 1861 - August 7 1941). Tagore was an institution in himself. This blogger has read almost all work of Tagore and consider him a tremendous influence. His essays have been particularly elemental on me (his writings on kabir is must read, another person who understood kabir was Osho). Terrific guy. Many countries around the world select poet laureate for the year, it is an amazing idea. This blogger believes that May 7th should be declared as poetry day and events related to poetry and poets held across schools and colleges.I think very few who have not read these inspiring lines
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.
Today that is May 7th is the birthday of great man Rabindranath Tagore (May 7 1861 - August 7 1941). Tagore was an institution in himself. This blogger has read almost all work of Tagore and consider him a tremendous influence. His essays have been particularly elemental on me (his writings on kabir is must read, another person who understood kabir was Osho). Terrific guy. Many countries around the world select poet laureate for the year, it is an amazing idea. This blogger believes that May 7th should be declared as poetry day and events related to poetry and poets held across schools and colleges.
