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Rabindranath Tagore a name very close to our hearts evokes a feeling of pride awe and inspiration and continues to arouse our curiosity to know more about this multi-faceted personality Biographers have either tried to analyse his works in the light of his life or in the perspective of his contemporary time This book chronicles the Poet?s contributions in the context of the period to which he belonged bringing into light those incidents anecdotes and issues which have often been overlooked but which nonetheless are significant as they enable us to understand Tagore betterHis role as a son brother husband father; his accomplishments as a poet philosopher writer painter choreographer actor; his relations with his family friends contemporary writers and poets as well as predecessors; his correspondences with the political leaders of his time within the nation as well as abroad; and above all his interpretations about life revealing his quest for love faith and devotion and his deep-rooted anguish his unfulfilled dreams and expectations as projected in the broad sweep of this lucid narration reveal two facets of the Poet a man of extraordinary abilities yet a man having ordinary expectations who could thereby understand the joys and sorrows of the common man keeping aside his own gains and losses And it is for this reason that Tagore remains dear to all people cutting across boundaries generations caste creed or sect 280 pp.

"These prose translations from Rabindranath Tagore have stirred my blood as nothing has for years," wrote W.B. Yeats in 1912, a year before Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first Asian writer so honored. Traveling the world for several decades and sharing both his artistic and spiritual gifts with millions, Tagore was praised and admired in his time like no other twentieth-century writer as a spiritual seer and a literary genius.This biography, the product of more than ten years of research and collaboration between the authors, is the first work in many decades to disentangle the profound and perplexing contradictions that made Tagore such a fascinating and pivotal figure. He was one of the very first to perceive that - despite the great geographic and cultural distance between them - East and West would be compelled to meet in the twentieth century. Truly myriad-minded, Tagore expressed the pleasure and pain of this encounter in poetry, songwriting, and painting. "I can now imagine a powerful and gentle Christ, which I never could before," Charles Darwin's granddaughter told a friend after meeting Rabindranath.Focusing more on the man than his art and drawing extensively on newly uncovered material, Rabindranath Tagore brings to life a brilliant artist and his complicated times. Passionate, compelling, and insightful, Tagore's story has the power to move its readers in the very core of their being.

This is a biography of Rabindranath Tagore who won the Nobel Prize in 1913, the first of only two Asian writers to do so. Today he is highly regarded in Bengal. He perceived that the ancient polarities of East and West would be compelled to meet in the 20th century. An educational, social, political and religious reformer, he wrote poetry, short stories, novels, essays and plays, and he painted and composed songs. This book focuses on the man, not his art. It highlights those of Tagore's works that have universal appeal and that illuminate his complexity and his "myriad-mindedness".

The brilliant and immensely prolific Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is known the world over for his accomplished works in an astoundingly wide range of genres: fiction, short stories, poetry, drama, and essays. During the final year of his life, while suffering from the painful illness that would eventually end in his death, Tagore completed four volumes of poetry that expressed the emotional turmoil of facing one's own imminent extinction. Appearing here for the first time in English is a selection of these extraordinary poems that captures as closely as possible the beauty and subtlety of Tagore's original Bengali verses. A marked departure from Tagore's earlier work, these poems are, as the translators say, "so compact that it is almost as if [he]...were going beyond words, as if language no longer suffices, and yet, of course, the language radiates meaning." Poised between life and death, Tagore is awed by the beauty of this world and glimpses in it the presence of the infinite ("Such splendor illuminates a deathlessness/ hidden in the everyday by our senses' limits"). At other times, "alone by sorrow's last window," he is gripped by the sheer terror of experiencing the relentless approach of death. Tagore was so weak at the end that he had to dictate his poems. Although the pain was often excruciating and the fear and anger overwhelming, he still exulted in life. In these poems, from his deathbed, he conveys the intense joy of living and his ultimate triumph over death.

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Beautiful new translation of major writings of Tagore, rep. of a classic, sensitive work by a leading intellectual. Includes manuscript ages, 20 color reproductions of Tagore's paintings.

Set against a panoramic background of inter-Asian cultural politics, and drawing on the intersections of the late Meiji period in Japan and the Swadeshi movement in Bengal, Another Asia elaborates on the ideals of Asia catalyzed by the meeting of Rabindranath Tagore and the Japanese art historian and curator Okakura Tenshin in Calcutta in 1902. The book weaves through an intricate tapestry of ideas relating to pan-Asianism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and friendship, and positions the early modernist tensions of the period within--and against--the specter of a unified Asia that concealed considerable political differences. The book draws on pan-Asian works such as The Ideals of the East and The Awakening of the East, in counterpoint to Tagore's radical Nationalism. The book, offering new insights into the ways in which the Orient travelled within and beyond Asia stimulated by emergent modes of vernacular cosmopolitanism, will appeal to students and scholars of cultural studies, South Asian postcolonial literature, literary theory, and performance studies, as well as general readers.

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A compilation of the Nobel laureates literary masterpieces, this exquisitely designed leather-bound edition with gold gilded edges contains the English translations of his twenty-five classic short stories namely The River Stairs, The Postmaster, The Cabuliwallah, Living or Dead?, The Supreme Night, The Home-Coming, The Hungry Stones, The Auspicious Vision, Master Mashai, and Mashi among others. Also included is Gitanjali, his most celebrated collection of poetry; My Reminiscences, his memoir; and the well-known novel, The Home and The World. A small editorial note precedes each work.

A commemorative volume to mark the 150th Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, great Indian poet, painter, and philosopher.

Awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1913. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is considered the most important poet of modern-day India. He was also a distinguished author, educator, social reformer, and philosopher.This inspiring collection of Tagore's poetry represents his "simple prayers of common life." Each of the seventy-seven prayers is an eloquent affirmation of the divine in the face of both joy and sorrow. Like the Psalms of David, they transcend time and speak directly to the human heart.

This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1915 edition by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London.

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In this classic play tagore dramatised the concept that the religion of man is much higher than the religion of rituals and scriptures the conflict here is not only between obedience to ‘moth-eaten scriptures’ and religion of one’s choice but between the poetry of pity and the prose of social necessity

Set against a panoramic background of inter-Asian cultural politics, and drawing on the intersections of the late Meiji period in Japan and the Swadeshi movement in Bengal, Another Asia elaborates on the ideals of Asia catalyzed by the meeting of Rabindranath Tagore and the Japanese art historian and curator Okakura Tenshin in Calcutta in 1902. The book weaves through an intricate tapestry of ideas relating to pan-Asianism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and friendship, and positions the early modernist tensions of the period within--and against--the specter of a unified Asia that concealed considerable political differences. The book draws on pan-Asian works such as The Ideals of the East and The Awakening of the East, in counterpoint to Tagore's radical Nationalism. The book, offering new insights into the ways in which the Orient travelled within and beyond Asia stimulated by emergent modes of vernacular cosmopolitanism, will appeal to students and scholars of cultural studies, South Asian postcolonial literature, literary theory, and performance studies, as well as general readers.

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Scholars have long debated the very idea of a bengal renaissance their controversies have dwelt almost entirely over whether there was anything like a renaissance at all and its significance or otherwise from social, political and cultural perspectives this book addresses the issue from a very different framework subrata dasgupta an eminent scientist and author of a highly regarded intellectual biography of the scientist jagadis chandra bose approaches the topic from the perspective of philosophy of science and the psychology of creativity his intention is to show that the phenomenon of the bengal renaissance is characterized by a certain collective cognitive identity, which had its roots in the work of the british orientalists, beginning with william jones and which took form amidst a small but remarkable community of highly creative individuals in nineteenth-century bengal the most notable figures in this creative community were the social reformer and savant rammohun roy; the poet h

Rabindranath Tagore Selected Essays is a collection Tagore's most acclaimed essays. Creative Unity (1922) contains some of Tagore's finest writings in English, revealing his fundamental tenets on art, aesthetics, life and religion. The essays in Sadhana (1913) explore the poet's interpretation of the ancient spirit of India as it is manifested in the sacred texts as well as daily life. Personality (1917) is a finely structured exposition of Tagore's spiritual thought, while Nationalism in India (1917) offers his vision of a society independent of the existing models of the nationstate in the East and West. Essays from Crisis in Civilization (Sabhyatar Samrat), Tagore's last public address, delivered in 1941, The Religion of Man (1941) and Greater India (1921) which explores the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, are also included.

Poet, playwright, and novelist Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was one of the towering cultural figures of modern India, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Of his many works, the most enduringly popular has been Gitanjali, or Song Offerings, likely due to the honesty with which these verses articulate the poet's personal, and humanity's eternal, spiritual quest. Although steeped in Hindu roots, they have the capability of bringing together compassionate, seeking minds of all faiths. Certainly they are worth reading and rereading in these times of troubling religious strife. Inspired by his first reading of Gitanjali, artist Mark W. McGinnis created 103 exquisite nine-by-nine-inch paintings, after the fashion of Indian Kangra style paintings of the late 18th century. His paintings are intended not simply to be illustrations of Tagore's verses but images inspired by them and the artist's understanding of the creative mind behind them.

Ramkinkar Vaij (1906-1980), a significant artist of twentieth century India, is regarded as the first major figure in modern Indian sculpture. Born into a poor family in Bankura district, Bengal, he enrolled himself as a student in Santiniketan, at the university founded by Rabindranath Tagore, at the age of 19. Having made his home and found his creative métier there - as a student first and a teacher later - he was one of the pioneering trio of artists, along with Nandalal Bose and Benodebehari Mukherjee, who made Santiniketan the most important center for art in India between 1920 and 1947. Ramkinkar, as he was popularly known, was a man who had enormous gifts but never aired them; an artist who was single-minded in his pursuit of work but treated the results with philosophic unconcern. Indifferent to success, fame and money, he lived an unworldly and capricious life. His works reflect a great zest for the gifts of nature and deep concern for the conditions of poor and laboring people.The subject of this book is Ramkinkar's sculptures as seen through the photographic lens of Devi Prasad, supplemented by discussions on the artist's life and work in his own words and through the eyes of his students, friends and associates. Devi Prasad, who was a student at Kala Bhavan during 1938-44, went back to Santiniketan as a Visiting Professor in the year 1978. During his stay there, he undertook a photographic study of 60-odd sculptures of Ramkinkar. Towards the end of that year, during the seventh Pous celebrations, he exhibited nearly 150 of these photographs in three halls of Kala Bhavan. Ramkinkar himself, though in poor health by then, inaugurated the exhibition; he was deeply moved to see such a large photographic representation of his works.This book on Ramkinkar's sculptures by Devi Prasad is published as a tribute, to mark the artist's birth centenary year.