Uploaded January 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's a virtual movie of the great Bengali Poet Rabindranath Tagore reciting his poem "Where The Mind Is Without Fear" The following definitive notes are taken by open invitation from the excellent youtube channel Bloom Books Channel
Rabindranath Tagore 1861–1941 A native of Calcutta, India, who wrote in Bengali and often translated his own work into English, Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 — the first Asian to receive the honor. He wrote poetry, fiction, drama, essays, and songs; promoted reforms in education, aesthetics and religion; and in his late sixties he even t
youtube.com/watch?v=WzJoQ_VphMQ
Where The Mind Is Without Fear, the most famous of Rabindranath Tagore's poems, is misunderstood as prose or free verse. Actually, Tagore locked the lines so that half-wits and dull-wits shall not sing it. Who will believe a young poet born in a house where veena, tabala and harmonium resounded day and night and was thickly populated by the most talented poets, singers, artists and musicians of Bengal at that time will not have a magnificent tune embedded in his poem? Listen to this song here.
It's an old English song which often found its way into many English text books the world over. Here is a primitive prototype rendering of this song, made in a crude tape recorder decades earlier. It's part of a project PROPÈS INDIA or Project For The Popularization of English Songs In India. Recorded from an English class by Mr. P.S.Remesh Chandran. It's free for reuse, and anyone interested can develop and build on it, till it becomes a fine video musical production, to help little learners. Building a video or cinematic version of this song would certainly be needing talent and imagination. We hope a full and refined video of this song will be made by others, who have access to costly recording studios, musical instruments and sophisticated equipment.
Listen to this song in Sound Cloud at https://soundcloud.com/bloom-books-tr.... It is downloadable.
Also please read this pictureful and informative article: 'My First English Recitation Videos Took Thirty Years To Produce. By P.S.Remesh Chandran.'
WHERE THE MIND IS 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.
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2015
Here's a virtual movie of the great Bengali Poet Rabindranath Tagore reciting his poem "Where The Mind Is Without Fear" The following definitive notes are taken by open invitation from the excellent youtube channel Bloom Books Channel
Rabindranath Tagore 1861–1941 A native of Calcutta, India, who wrote in Bengali and often translated his own work into English, Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 — the first Asian to receive the honor. He wrote poetry, fiction, drama, essays, and songs; promoted reforms in education, aesthetics and religion; and in his late sixties he even t
youtube.com/watch?v=WzJoQ_VphMQ
Where The Mind Is Without Fear, the most famous of Rabindranath Tagore's poems, is misunderstood as prose or free verse. Actually, Tagore locked the lines so that half-wits and dull-wits shall not sing it. Who will believe a young poet born in a house where veena, tabala and harmonium resounded day and night and was thickly populated by the most talented poets, singers, artists and musicians of Bengal at that time will not have a magnificent tune embedded in his poem? Listen to this song here.
It's an old English song which often found its way into many English text books the world over. Here is a primitive prototype rendering of this song, made in a crude tape recorder decades earlier. It's part of a project PROPÈS INDIA or Project For The Popularization of English Songs In India. Recorded from an English class by Mr. P.S.Remesh Chandran. It's free for reuse, and anyone interested can develop and build on it, till it becomes a fine video musical production, to help little learners. Building a video or cinematic version of this song would certainly be needing talent and imagination. We hope a full and refined video of this song will be made by others, who have access to costly recording studios, musical instruments and sophisticated equipment.
Listen to this song in Sound Cloud at https://soundcloud.com/bloom-books-tr.... It is downloadable.
Also please read this pictureful and informative article: 'My First English Recitation Videos Took Thirty Years To Produce. By P.S.Remesh Chandran.'
WHERE THE MIND IS 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.
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2015
