Let's re-write history!

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.
Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali

Dear Sir, 

This one is easy to re-phrase, after all, we are supposed to re-write history. 

Here is how I would do it...

Where the mind is full of fear and the head is ducked low;

Where knowledge is to a few;

Where the world is shackled in borders and terrorism a reality;

Where words are mere tools of hypocrisy;

Where tireless striving stretches its arm towards corruption;

Where each policy has lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where if we have to be led forward, it will be another time, another day;

God alone knows when, for the moment, my father, let my country sleep.

Sir, would you write it any differently?