India, Feb. 8 -- 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

In this prodigious poem, Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore implores God to awaken the country to seek emancipation from the foreign yoke. However, the poem entails more than a mere physical liberation of the country. It seeks to reinvigorate the fossilised and chained human mind. This poem, with amazing psychological contours, attempts to breathe in freshness in the mind's otherwise lustreless and cranny corners.Tagore implores us to discard and tear apart the existing repugnant traditions and customs, where humans behave as mere prototypes and marionettes.

The human mind seeks perfection...