Tagore unfolds a new horizon of human prayer where the heart is not in quest of the unknown alone but is also enchanted with the beauty of the world with all its flora and fauna. A sort of kindred relationship born of compassion and affection, kindness and conciliation is expressed in the words of prayer that tell a new truth: man is never along. The joys and sorrows, agonies and ecstasies, of the human mind seek consolation not merely within oneself but in an intimate association with all in and around one. What makes Tagore’s prayer so vibrant and arresting, living and pulsating? How does he come closet to our diverse thoughts and emotions through his songs of prayer? How does he remain an eternal iconoclast indealing with the prayers of the human heart? Perhaps love is the only key to negotiate all these and other allied questions as Tagore marvelously spells out in his exquisite songs of prayer. Here is a creator of songs par excellence who unfolds the glory of love in course of prayer of an enviably inimitable manner. In fact, love opens the unknown vista of the human heart that never yields to desolation, disappointment, dullness,, depression, dissociation or death.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mohit Chakrabarti
Mohit Chakrabarti, D. Litt. Teaches English and Education at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. Honoured with National Award. Credited with participation/ presentation/ acceptance of Papers in International/National conferences, symposia, seminars etc. including the World Assembly of Teacher Educators, the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, Institution of Education, Singapore, First International Symposium on ‘India and World Literature’, University of Delhi, Delhi, Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University of Haifa, Israel, Workshop on Setting the Agenda for the 21 Century, Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, Syama Prasad Mookerjee Centenary Conference on Sustainable Economic Social and Political Reforms in the Information Age, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. Member, National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), New Delhi. Consistent and prolific contributor to studies and researches on Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Ganchi and Swami Vivekananda. Author of children’s literature in Bengali and English.
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