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A Various Universe explores the rich literature of travel which accompanied the commercial and political expansion of the British people in teh second half of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries. The panorama of the subcontinent unfolding under the scrutiny of intelligent observers, the wealth of information on every aspect of Indian life, the memorable East-West cultural encounter, the extraordinary nature of many of the adventures and ...
Buddhadeva Bose (1907-74) is now being recognized as one of the most multitalented amongst the post-Tagore generation of Bengali writers. A versatile writer—comfortable in genres as diverse as poetry, novels, short stories, drama, essays, travelogues, and memoirs—he was also an influential editor and critic, a translator of poetry who had a profound impact on younger poets, a writer for children, and a pioneer in comparative literary studies. He set up the ...
In November 1924 Rabindranath Tagore disembarked at Buenos Aires with the intention of proceeding to Peru. Weakened by an influenza caught on board, he spent the next two months in a suburban riverside villa made available to him by a young Argentine woman who was devoted admirer of his works: Victoria Ocampo, destined to become one of the most distinguished women of Latin America. A friendship was formed which was to have a deep influence on the life and work of ...