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	Publisher: Picador India
	Author Rabindranath Tagore
	Language: English
	Pages: 415
	Cover: PAPERBACK
	8x5 inch
	Weight 330 gm
	Edition: 2015
	ISBN: 9789382616313
	HBY069

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About the Book These prose translations from Tagore have stirred my blood as nothing has for years,' wrote WB Yeats in 1912. A year later Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature; and his works were translated into dozens of languages. This new anthology edited by Tagore's biographers is an authoritative selection which provides a fine introduction to his work, new translations from Bengali and a perfect balance between the diverse genres in which he worked. Collected here are a play, short stories, extracts from a novel, poems, songs, epigrams and paintings, as well as memoirs, letters, essays and conversations. From his celebrated play The Post Office to his fantastic paintings and drawings, this is the first anthology to show clearly the literary sophistication, emotional power and intellectual range of Tagore's whole achievement. Krishma Dutta and Andrew Robinson bring the whole of Tagore into sharper focus. But they also offer a deep insight into the making of modern India. The essays, letters, conversations and poems of Tagore retrace a journey made by a builder of modern consciousness in India'

About the Author KRISHNA DUTTA was born in Calcutta and studied Tagore from childhood. She has lived for many years in London where she works as a teacher.

Introduction Rabindranath Tagore's best-known novel, The Home and the World, the character who is really the author bursts out at one point with these powerful and subversive words: It was Buddha who conquered the world, not Alexander - this is untrue when stated in dry prose - oh when shall we be able to sing it? When shall all these most intimate truths of the universe overflow the pages of printed books and leap out in a sacred stream like the Ganges from the Gangotri? While translating Tagore's poems into Russian in the 1960s, Anna Akhmatova made caustic gibes at them. But having finished, she declared: 'He's a great poet, I can see that now. It's not only a matter of individual lines which have real genius, or individual poems but that mighty flow of poetry which takes its strength from Hinduism as from the Ganges, and is called Rabindranath Tagore.' Readers, particularly western readers for whom this book is mainly intended, dipping into Tagore's work for the first time, are soon compelled to confront their own fundamental beliefs about the purpose of life on earth. Do we follow Buddha or Alexander, Christ or Caesar? For the spiritual values that permeate Tagore's voluminous printed works, and which brought him the Nobel prize for literature in 1913, were no second-hand religion: they were rooted both in his ancestry and in his own long and hard-fought experience, and they found constant expression in every aspect of his extraordinary life. With this realization comes a second challenge to the reader of Tagore: which matters more, his published works that outpouring of poetry, songs, plays, short stories, novels, essays, letters and paintings - or his human existence in India and the world, which ceased half a century ago? Gandhi, Tagore's great contemporary, with whom he frequently and publicly disagreed, famously said of himself that his life was his message; and it is more for his actions than for his words that the world reveres him. Tagore, who first called Gandhi Mahatma, 'Great Soul', said of him: He stopped at the thresholds of the huts of the thousands of dispossessed, dressed like one of their own. He spoke to them in their own language. Here was living truth at last, and not only quotations from books. For this reason the Mahatma, the name given to him by the people of India, is his real name. Who else has felt like him that all Indians are his own flesh and blood? When love came to the door of India, that door was opened wide. At Gandhi's call India blossomed forth to new greatness, just as once before, in earlier times, when Buddha proclaimed the truth of fellow-feeling and compassion among all living creatures. Though it is not now widely appreciated, much the same might be said of Tagore with this radical difference: Tagore's medium was not that of Gandhi. He worked not on the flesh and blood but on the minds of countless individuals. He too stopped at the thresholds of thousands, thousands of minds, not just in India but worldwide, and entered them. I feel like a painted picot with a stone war-club,' Ezra Pound told a friend after spending the afternoon with Tagore. 'Briefly, I find in these poems a sort of ultimate common sense,' he wrote of Tagore's Gitanjali soon after, 'a reminder of one thing and of forty things of which we are over likely to lose sight in the confusion of our western life, in the racket of our cities, in the jabber of manufactured literature, in the vortex of advertisement.' That is why Gandhi, in his turn, called Tagore the Great Sentinel. 'I regard the Poet', he said, 'as a sentinel warning us against the approach of enemies called Bigotry, Lethargy, Intolerance, Ignorance, Inertia and other members of that brood." And so Tagore's life, the way he developed his mind and the manifold channels by which he flowed into other human beings, matters very much as much as his published legacy. In fact the two are indivisible. As with Tolstoy, and more than with most writers, Tagore's art cannot be properly understood without understanding his life. Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, was perceptive when he wrote in his jail diary on 7 August 1941, after hearing of Tagore's death: Gandhi and Tagore. Two types entirely different from each other, and yet both of them typical of India, both in the long line of India's great men. Judged as types of men, I have felt for long that they were the outstanding examples in the world today. There are many of course who may be abler than them or greater geniuses in their own line. Einstein is great. There may be greater poets than Tagore, greater writers. It is not so much because of any single virtue but because of the tout ensemble, that I felt that among the world's great men today Gandhi and Tagore were supreme as human beings. What good fortune for me to have come into close contact with them. Since that time, while Gandhi's reputation has increased since his death, Tagore's, except in Bengal (where he is an icon), has fallen low and has only recently begun to revive. There were many reasons for the decay, but perhaps the most significant was that Tagore's best work, with the exception of his paintings, was accessible only in Bengali, a language known to very few westerners and of low economic and political prestige, inter-nationally speaking.

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