Rabindranath Tagore
141 books
Rabindranath felt that under the prevailing educational system, students were alienated from their roots and cultural heritage. It was meant to turn out clerks, civil servants and a few professionals. The students were concerned only with scoring good marks and securing a job. These may be needed later in life, but it was essential in the formative years to relate to their own ambience and imbibe right values. These ideas were institutionalized in Santiniketan ...
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal. In his mature years, in addition to his many sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. Tagore’s collection of essays is the author’s most acclaimed essays in ...
Rabindranath Tagore is one of the greatest geniuses produced by India. He is a poet dramatist novelist short story writer painter and musician all rolled into one. His every work of art has a characteristic mark called Tagore. He made the whole world feel the unique soul of India. Life love mysticism spirituality and nature all reverborate through out his works. Tagore himself is a revolution a great movement. The world takes centuries to understand the true ...
Seventy years after his death, Tagore's genius still provides ample scope for critical analyses of his writings, especially in the English language and outside the subcontinent.
A collection of thirteen essays, The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore enhances critical literature on Tagore. Looking at different aspects of Tagore's life and philosophy, the chapters in this volume are sequenced from the more general to the specific. They ...
Rabindra Chitravali brings together in four volumes the paintings of Rabindranth Tagore. The core of this corpus is his paintings in the Rabindra Bhavana and Kala Bhavana collections of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, numbering about 1700 objects. To this will be added paintings in the collection of National Gallery of Modern Art and the collections at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Bangalore, and Indian Museum, ...
Described by Rabindranath Tagore as ‘revelations of my true self’, the poems and songs of Gitanjali established the writer’s literary talent worldwide. They include eloquent sonnets such as the famous ‘Where the mind is without fear’, intense explorations of love, faith and nature (‘Light, oh where is the light?’) and tender evocations of childhood (‘When my play was with thee’).In this new translation to mark ...
Rabindranath Tagore experimented with form in his novels and was bold in his choice of subjects. This omnibus edition brings together the Nobel Prize winner’s most popular novels in translation. It is a collection that will be loved and treasured.
Rabindranath demands to be quoted—for his impressive command over language, his inimitable expressions and, especially, for the keenness of his thought. Tagore’s poetry is legion, but his prose writings reflect the way he perceived the world and his involvement in the contemporary debates of his time. Tagore’s sharp, analytical, polyglot mind contested mainstream world views even as he maintained a unique position on the fundamental shifts that ...
In 1961 to celebrate the birth centenary of the Nobel Laureate Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), an entire issue of Marg magazine was devoted to a meditation on the painter Rabindranath by its then editor Mulk Raj Anand. This time around Marg presents that pathbreaking essay along with two others from its archives and nine fresh ones in a potpourri of the old and the new as a 150th anniversary tribute in a new millenium to the brightest luminary of ...
These are two Tagore's brilliant novelettes brought together in one volume Farewell, My Friend presents the amusing picture of a sophisticated Bengalli intellectual faced with the dilemma of his life when he falls in love with a girl of fine sensibility and deep feeling. The Garden is a unique study of the feminine mind, absorbing and thought provoking.
This three-volume English translation by Ratan Kumar Chattopadhyay called Selections from Galpaguchchha (Bengali for a bunch of stories)is a collection of sixty-one of Tagore’s short stories broadly grouped under the themes of parting of ways, the relationship between men and women, and the power within the woman, respectively.Volume 1 includes memorable stories like the ‘The Pedlar from Kabul’, ‘Broken Nest’, ...
Poet, novelist, painter, musician and Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore was one of modern India’s greatest literary figures. This collection brings together some of his best works—poems, short stories and plays in one volume.Be it the wit, magic and lyricism of his poetry or the vividly etched social milieu of his stories, or the sheer power and vibrancy of his plays, Tagore’s versatility and unceasing creativity come alive in these writings. ...
The Lady behind the veil, who opens her face to Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) in the final moment beyond death, flits through the corpus of his life work. More specifically, however, she appears in four forms of his work; poems, songs, think pieces in prose and paintings. Jivanadevata is mentioned by name only in a few poems, and in some prose pieces including The Religion of Man. Her identification is a matter of guess work in the rest of his work, especially ...
