This is a brief poetic excerpt from Dilip Mukerjea's  book, Megha-LIONS, which is dedicated to politics, leadership, statesmanship in the Indian State of  Meghalaya:

“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 toward perfection; 

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it’s 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!” 

~ Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali: Song Offerings # 35