Tagore Memorial Secondary Blog

This world is lovely, all decorated with wealth, fruits and flowers. But even so, among all the countries in the world, the most beautiful is our own wonderful country. Her strength is woven with beautiful dreams, awesome courage and love. This is her glory. By searching, one cannot find a country as wonderful as Guyana! O Guyana O Guyana you are a crown among all other countries. In whose green fields and forest, the birds sing. In your gardens, birds, bees and butterflies revel as they sip nectar from the radiant tropical flowers. Guyana whose rice (paddy) is gold and whose cane is silver. Black, yellow, fair and simple, is her children. Here dharma teaches love and friendliness, togetherness and culture. Among brothers, immense love exists and there is fraternity between mothers and sisters. Where else, where else, can such love be found O mother? In the service of this land let me die.

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                                                  Words by: Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7th May 1861 to Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi in the Jorasanko mansion (the ancestral home of the Tagore family) in Calcutta. He was the youngest son among thirteen children. Though the Tagore family had many members, he was mostly raised by servants and maids as he lost his mother while he was still very young and with his father being an extensive traveler.  Rabindranath Tagore, who composed the National Anthem of India and won the Nobel Prize for Literature, was a multitalented personality in every sense. He was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, painter and a composer. He was also a cultural reformer. Though he was a polymath, his literary works alone are enough to place him in the elite list of all-time greats. Even today, Rabindranath Tagore is often remembered for his poetic songs, which are both spiritual and mercurial. He was one of...