Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861 - August 7, 1941) Nobel Laureate
Writer, Playwright, Poet, Musician, Painter, philosopher, educationist and Freedom Fighter
{The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European to have been so honoured, "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West".}
As part of the celebrations of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, the High Commission of India is conducting an essay competition.
Entries are invited from youths aged between 18 and 22 years living in Ghana on the theme "How is Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore's vision as reflected in the poem "Mind Without Fear" (printed below) relevant in today's world, particularly Ghana". The entries should reach the Head of Chancery, High Commission of India, CT -5708, Cantonments, Accra on or before June 15, 2011. Word limit for t Essay: 1000 words. The best three entries adjudged by the jury would receive prizes (GHc 500, GHc 300 and GHc 200 respectively).
Mind 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.
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