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Kashmiri poetry was even set on its path by the appreciation by Tagore of some of the poems of Mahjoor, the pioneer, who had used some of the folk song-patterns for the new poetry, when Tagore was on a visit to Kashmir in 1917. The full impact of Tagore's poetry could not be felt in the Punjab early enough,
“The poems of Balaka,” wrote Lago in Rabindranath Tagore, “reflect a time of account-taking and of Tagore’s reactions to the turbulence of the past four years: the excitement surrounding the Nobel award and the knighthood that followed in 1915, the premonitions of political disaster, and the anxieties of the World War.” The flying swans symbolized, for the poet, movement ...
- Voice of Bengal
- The Mystic
- Confluence of Cultures
- Abode of Peace
- Gandhi and Tagore
- East and West
- God and Others
- Reasoning in Freedom
- Celibacy and Personal Life
- Science and The People
Rabindranath Tagore, who died in 1941 at the age of eighty, is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes familiar with this large and flourishing tradition will be impressed by the power of Tagore’s presence in Bangladesh and in India. His poetry as well as his novels, short stories, and essays are very widely...
The contrast between Tagore’s commanding presence in Bengali literature and culture, and his near-total eclipse in the rest of the world, is perhaps less interesting than the distinction between the view of Tagore as a deeply relevant and many-sided contemporary thinker in Bangladesh and India, and his image in the West as a repetitive and remote s...
Rabindranath did come from a Hindu family – one of the landed gentry who owned estates mostly in what is now Bangladesh. But whatever wisdom there might be in Akhmatova’s invoking of Hinduism and the Ganges, it did not prevent the largely Muslim citizens of Bangladesh from having a deep sense of identity with Tagore and his ideas. Nor did it stop t...
Most of his work was written at Santiniketan (Abode of Peace), the small town that grew around the school he founded in Bengal in 1901, and he not only conceived there an imaginative and innovative system of education, but through his writings and his influence on students and teachers, he was able to use the school as a base from which he could ta...
Since Rabindranath Tagore and Mohandas Gandhi were two leading Indian thinkers in the twentieth century, many commentators have tried to compare their ideas. On learning of Rabindranath’s death, Jawaharlal Nehru, then incarcerated in a British jail in India, wrote in his prison diary for August 7, 1941: Romain Rolland was fascinated by the contrast...
Given the vast range of his creative achievements, perhaps the most astonishing aspect of the image of Tagore in the West is its narrowness; he is recurrently viewed as “the great mystic from the East,” an image with a putative message for the West, which some would welcome, others dislike, and still others find deeply boring. To a great extent thi...
Yeats was not wrong to see a large religious element in Tagore’s writings. He certainly had interesting and arresting things to say about life and death. Susan Owen, the mother of Wilfred Owen, wrote to Rabindranath in 1920, describing her last conversations with her son before he left for the war which would take his life. Wilfred said goodbye wit...
For Tagore it was of the highest importance that people be able to live, and reason, in freedom. His attitudes toward politics and culture, nationalism and internationalism, tradition and modernity, can all be seen in the light of this belief.11 Nothing, perhaps, expresses his values as clearly as a poem in Gitanjali: Rabindranath’s qualified suppo...
Tagore and Gandhi’s attitudes toward personal life were also quite different. Gandhi was keen on the virtues of celibacy, theorized about it, and, after some years of conjugal life, made a private commitment – publicly announced – to refrain from sleeping with his wife. Rabindranath’s own attitude on this subject was very different, but he was gent...
Gandhi and Tagore severely clashed over their totally different attitudes toward science. In January 1934, Bihar was struck by a devastating earthquake, which killed thousands of people. Gandhi, who was then deeply involved in the fight against untouchability (the barbaric system inherited from India’s divisive past, in which “lowly people” were ke...
Dec 24, 2019 · 2 A Garland of Many Tagores; Part I Overviews; 3 Rabindranath and His Times; 4 Tagore's Poetry: An Overview; 5 ‘Something of a Musician’: Tagore's Songs; 6 Rabindranath Tagore: Drama and Performance; 7 Imagined Worlds: The Prose Fiction of Rabindranath Tagore; 8 The English Writings: An Overview; 9 Tagore and Indian Literature: Influence ...
Feb 27, 2019 · Tagore’s global fame came as if by chance in 1913 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. This was on the basis of Gitanjali , a small English volume of prose poems. The booklet appeared in 1912 and knew overwhelming success; at that point Tagore was launched as an international writer and Indian prophet in one, a cult figure with a global impact.
Nature and Environment. Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali is not only a masterpiece of literature, but it also reflects the poet’s deep love and respect for nature and the environment. Throughout the collection of poems, Tagore portrays nature as a source of inspiration, solace, and spiritual enlightenment.
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Mar 16, 2017 · Tagore’s view on the hegemonic role of language in constituting a viable print-community belongs to this phase of regional nationalism which was a common feature of the early stage of Indian nationalism. In 1898 when ‘Bhasha-Bicched’ appeared in Bharati, Tagore was not yet a Nobel laureate.
