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Rabindranath Tagore's Hero Poems Part I

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Punjab roars today as one mighty lion, "Alakh Niranjan!"

That momentous day is arrived

A million hearts bereft of anxiety

Freed from all bonds or indebtedness

Life and death--both serfs at their feet

Their minds burdened not with care.

Upon ten shorelines flanking the rivers five

A momentous day is arrived.

Within the palace walls in Delhi, meanwhile

Repeatedly the Badshah awakens from fretful trance

Whose voice is that which stirs the heavens

And breaks the quiet stillness of the night

Whose flaming torches--those, which touch

And light up the vast forehead of the sky?

By the shoreline of the five rivers

Did the swirling waves of martyrs' blood

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Monish R. Chatterjee received the B.Tech. (Hons) degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from I.I.T., Kharagpur, India, in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from the University of Iowa, (more...)
 

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