Name the famous poet who wrote the following lines: "Where the mind is without…

Concept: A poet-identification question tests whether you can recognise a poet from the exact opening line(s) of one of their signature works, rather than from a paraphrase or a general theme. The reliable method is to match the precise wording of the quoted line to its known, published source, then confirm it against the poet’s well-documented body of work.

Application: The quoted line, "Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high......", is the opening line of poem 35 in Rabindranath Tagore’s "Gitanjali" (Song Offerings) – originally composed in Bengali and rendered into English by Tagore himself. This poem envisions a fearless, unified, rationally awakened nation and is one of the most widely anthologised passages of modern Indian English literature; Gitanjali was central to the international recognition that brought Tagore the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

Cross-check:

• Sarojini Naidu was a celebrated Indian poet-nationalist known for poems such as "In the Bazaars of Hyderabad" and "The Bangle Sellers" – vivid, sensory verse about Indian life, but she did not write this line.

• Toru Dutt was a pioneering nineteenth-century Indian English poet remembered chiefly for "Our Casuarina Tree" and "Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan"; she died in 1877, decades before this poem was written, so she cannot be its author.

• John Milton was a seventeenth-century English poet best known for the epic "Paradise Lost", built on classical and biblical themes in a very different idiom; his work has no connection to this line’s imagery of a fearless, awakened homeland.

Result: The poet who wrote this line is Rabindranath Tagore.