A Renaissance figure, breathtaking in vigour, volume and variety, Rabindranath Tagore put us on the literary map of the world. Essentially a poet (ami kavi), he was many other things besides being a poet: dramatist, writer of short stories, novelist, a social, political, religious, aesthetic thinker, innovator in education, rural reconstruction, a champion of the One World idea. The author of two national anthems has touched life and the life of the people at ...
