Mind without Fear

                                                                                                                                         Tagore
“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.”

These are not mere words. These are the feelings from the bottom of the heart of the great poet Rabindranath Tagore. This day when we are bidding farewell to the year 2012 and welcoming the New Year 2013, let these feelings pervade our minds, let these words be on our lips. Let us strive for that tomorrow where our Nirbhayas breath, laugh and live freely. Let us join the Nation to pray for that Nirbhaya! That Nirbhaya, who shook the conscience of this Land.
                      Nirbhaya! Nirbhaya!! Nirbhaya!!!