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Where the Mind is without Fear (Poem)
Warm Up
● As the citizen of India, what are your aspirations?
ReCITATION
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 dear 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.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Word Power
fragments: small parts striving: making great efforts to achieve something
dreary: dull, boring thee: you (old form)
Comprehension Skills
A. Choose the correct option.
1. The mind should be without _____________.
a. ego b. fear c. anger
2. The head held high means _____________.
a. to be confident and proud b. to look up c. to be respectful
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