Question

What do you mean by the line 'let my country awake'?

Answer 1

Answer:

One such story was by Salil Shetty, Indian-born human rights activist and Secretary General of Amnesty International. The poem he chose was “Let My Country Awake” by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), accompanied by a particularly poignant introduction.

Salil Shetty describes the poem as “a powerful call to action and a declaration of belief in achievable change”. Perhaps most moving, however, is his statement that the final phrase, “let my country awake”, could quite easily be replaced with, “let the world awake”.