“Where the Mind Is Without Fear” is one of Rabindranath Tagore’s most famous poems, originally published in Bengali in the collection Naivedya (1901). The poem appeared in the collection Gitanjali (Song Offerings) in 1910 and was also included in the 1912 English translation. It is a prayer for an awakened, liberated, and enlightened India, free from fear, narrow thinking, and divisions. Tagore recited the English version of the poem at the Indian National Congress session in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1917.
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