One of Rabindranath Tagore’s most controversial novels, Ghare Baire (1916), (The Home and the World) continues to be read, taught and discussed with passion because the issues it unravels are pertinent to the literary and social concerns of our times. The tale revolves around Nikhilesh, a benevolent zamindar, Bimala, his wife, and Nikhilesh’s friend Sandip. While Bimala falls in love with the dynamic and ruthlessly fanatical Sandip and identifies in him the ...
