Standing beside the Rabindranath Tagore statue on UBC Campus, Vancouver, 10 August 2010

Here I am standing beside a bust of Rabindranath Thakur, anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore, the great Bengali poet and intellectual, on August 10, 2010, on the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver, Canada.

"Closed Path" by Rabindranath Tagore

 

I thought that my voyage had come to its end
at the last limit of my power,---that the path before me was closed,
that provisions were exhausted
and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity.

But I find that thy will knows no end in me.
And when old words die out on the tongue,
new melodies break forth from the heart;
and where the old tracks are lost,
new country is revealed with its wonders.