Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Introducing Gitanjali
Gita is her nick-name, from the famous poems of Tagore. I especially like this one:
Mind Without Fear
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 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.
Gita's looking a little fearful there in the photograph, but she's only a month old, 2100 grammes, and 52 cms from nose tip to tail tip. She's a mutt bought from the owner of a dog meat restaurant last week and just now getting used to her new home.
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