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Where the mind is without fear, head is held high

 Hi friends,          Rabindra Nath Tagore's Nobel Prize winning poetry Gitanjali, carries words of profound wisdom. 'Where the mind is without fear,  where the head is held high,  where the world has not been broken into pieces by narrow domestic walls, where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way. ' I have mentioned before that Iam not a great fan of poetry for unknown reasons, but these lines of that great poet was and is still my favourite.  These words will be valid as long as the human race exists.               We the ordinary citizens live in perpetual fear of something or other throughout our lives. Sometimes,  the fear is less, sometimes it is more, but never gone. For the 'weaker sex ' and that too in developing and unsafe countries like India,  the fear is more .  We fear society and we shape our lives according to the ' expectations of the society ' , and not what we really like/want to do. This is mostly the root cause of so many stres