Gitanjali gently nudges us to question ourselves leading us to the heaven of freedom where the heaven is found just within us, where God sits right inside of us making conversations with Him possible, right now.
DESHE DESHE MOR GHAR ACCHE POEM BY RABINDRA NATH TAGRE FREE
But are we free from discrimination at the grassroots levels?ĭo we even realize what freedom of mind may actually mean? This poem and all of the other poems in Gitanjali too helps work on an individual level of freedom.Īs a nation, we might be free from the shackles of slavery seeing progress in the fields of science, technology, medicine, sports, etc.
But what made me feel relevant even now, making it a timeless classic is that it yearns for freedom from our very own limitations of the mind. This poem, written by the visionary during the period when the British ruled India, at first looked like written as a yearning for freedom from slavery. Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where words come out from the depth of truth Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high I was introduced to Tagore’s work in my school through this poem “Where the mind is without fear” from Gitanjali– The poet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature for Gitanjali in the year 1913 which put Indian Literature in high regard across the world. It’s the simplicity in which Tagore brings out hope and the possibility to have conversations with God that makes it extraordinarily beautiful. The collection of poems captures the conversations of the poet with God in its profoundness even while keeping the language simple.
Well, the Bengali collection had 157 poems while the English translated collection has only 103 poems. Written by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali (which translates to “Song Offerings”) is a collection of translated poems of Tagore’s collection of Bengali poems titled Gitanjali. Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali is a treasure to be shared and enjoyed, consumed and let be consumed, discussed in platforms and yet relished in silence. This is more like a childlike joy of sharing a found treasure with friends. Though this post may be tagged under the category of a book review, let me be clear that this is not a book review. This book is one that I don’t want to view from a reviewer’s lens. It’s with a feeling of reverence and fondness that I attempt at writing about this book. Some speak of friendship, unity and togetherness, while others harp on God, eternity, etc.You may think that you consume poetry consciously but there may come along a book, like Gitanjali, where poetry will consume you, wholly, making you feel both lost and found, leaving you with a gratified feeling. The collection of autograph poems vary in theme.
Another file ‘MS 460’ includes eight poems by the Nobel laureate in his own handwriting in an address book. The file ‘MSF Autograph Poems’ contains several sets of typed poems. The polymath had composed numerous such short poems during his visits to China and Japan between 19.Īt Rabindra Bhavana, part of the Visva Bharati university campus, multiple versions of Rabindranath’s autograph-poems can be found either in the poet’s own handwriting or in typed scripts or printed forms. The book says Tagore soon perfected the craft and took it seriously which is evident in the painstaking modification of many of these poems years after they had been written. After getting the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his book of poems ‘Gitanjali’, ‘Gurudev’ had become a celebrity in Asia and Europe and was often requested by fans to compose short poems while signing autographs.
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