Where thought is the foe

September 27, 2017 10:01

"Where the mind is without fear/ And the head is held high/ The whole world is by the side/ Of Narendra Modi..."

The Bengali version rhymed, and was perhaps the only Amit Shah-welcome verse that scanned. The normally terrible versifiers of the Bharatiya Janata Party surpassed themselves because this was one poem that Narendra Modi had endorsed on May 7 this year, Tagore's birth anniversary, when the prime minister expressed his respect for the man for his "powerful thoughts" and "contribution to the freedom movement" on various media. Read more here.

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