The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore : Essays ( Vol. 5 ) 01 Edition (English, Hardcover, Rabindranath Tagore, Introduction By Mohit K. Ray)
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Publication Year: 2007
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Author: Rabindranath Tagore, Introduction By Mohit K. Ray
Author Info: Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7 May 1861 in an old aristocratic family of the nineteenth century Calcutta. Right from his teens he steadily grew as a writer and received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. But his creativity was in full form till his death on 7 August 1941. His long life of eighty years was marked by ceaseless and torrential flow of creativity manifested in the richness and variety of all kinds of literary forms. But he was not just a writer. He was also a great composer of songs and himself a singer as well as a performer. His creativity found magnificent manifestations in dance, drama, dance-drama, music, painting and various original organizational activities. Touching the kindred points of heaven and earth, he was both a man of action and of contemplation, a nationalist and an internationalist, a man of royal grandeur like his grandfather, Prince Dwarakanath Tagore, and an ascetic like his father, Maharshi Devendranath Tagore. He was a poet and a painter, a dramatist and an actor, a philosopher and a social reformer, an educationist and a humanist. In his philosophy of life the best of the East and that of the West were reconciled into a harmonious whole, enriching the quality and substance of life which he always saw steady and whole. His inclusive mind aspired after the Universal Man shining in the glory of creation and joie de vivre. Tagore’s unfailing faith in man and divinity, his concern for women and for children, his sympathy for the poor and the downtrodden, his philosophical speculations and practical wisdom, his perception of the zeitgeist are all inscribed in his writings in a magnificent synthesis of philosophical profundity and aesthetic luxuriance. With the passage of time Tagore has only grown in stature and is now reckoned as an increasingly significant and complex personality. It is always rewarding to revisit Tagore whether as an artist or a sentinel, a poet or a philosopher, a complex individual or a fine exponent of the Bengal Renaissance.
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Specialization: B.A(Political Science)
