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Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
3.0

This was my second or third time reading this collection of poems (or songs), but this time I read it after visiting Tagore's home in Kolkata. The themes range from the spiritual to the political, from love to nature, but ultimately I don't feel they stand together cohesively as a set of poems. My favourite lines continue to be those that are studied by so many Indian school children:

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