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Much has been said and documented about the multifaceted genius of Rabindranath Tagore. Radical Rabindranath is a post-colonial reading that focuses on areas that have been marginalised because of the more dominant and compelling desire in the West to establish Tagore as a transcendent visionary and poet-philosopher. The volume breaks new ground as it critiques Tagore’s non-conformism, radical outlook and occasional ambivalence as seen in his novels and ...
Since the unification of the two Germanies, the new entity which has emerged, or been revived, has been riven by racial intolerance and violence. Various explanations have been offered for this phenomenon: Germany’s racist past, the current economic crisis, the peculiar conditions of East Germany. There has also been an attempt to dismiss the racists as small and unimportant group of trouble makers. The present outburst of racism and neo-Nazism is a complex ...