A recent episode of The Great Indian Kapil Show sparked outrage among Bengalis for allegedly mocking Rabindranath Tagore's iconic song, Ekla Cholo Re. Bengali poet Srijato Bandyopadhyay criticized the ...
Childhood, they say, is one of the rare joys of life. William Shakespeare called it the first age of man. Marcel Proust constantly sought to return to it. On Sunday, the duo of composer Shantanu ...
On Rabindranath Tagore’s birth anniversary (May 7), a cross section of people talk about what his songs mean to them Rabindranath Tagore — poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, ...
Rabindranath Tagore's poetry is notoriously difficult to transport intact from Bengali to English, even when the poet himself was doing the translating. Yet in a new selection of Tagore's Final Poems, ...
Mirpur: As Bangladesh celebrates their Independence day today (March 26) patriotic songs were played all night through the loudspeaker outside my hotel room. Despite reaching the hotel way past ...
The official website of the Nobel Prize committee has tweeted a couple of Rabindranath Tagore's poe-ms - including "Where the mind is without fear" - to mark the Bard's 162nd birth anniversary. Tagore ...
Centring his novel around a young couple, Amit Raye and Labanyalata, Tagore uses a romantic relationship to comment on conjugal love, social expectations and literary criticism. Amit is back from ...
‘A gift to us’: Amit Chaudhuri on the achievements of Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Gitanjali’ as art-songs
It feels right that the Folio Society edition of the Gitanjali, published 112 years after its first outing, should begin with the original introduction by WB Yeats. It’s as much part of the book as ...
Rabindranath Tagore’s universal appeal and Shankha Ghosh’s contemporary resonance came together beautifully in a musical titled Gaaner Aakash Kobi performed at GD Birla Sabhagar in Ballygunge recently ...
In these times of misplaced nationalism and war-mongering, it's indeed ironic to remember that the poet and Nobel laureate who wrote India's national anthem was remarkably universal in his vision and ...
A recent episode of the renowned comedy show The Great Indian Kapil Show has provoked outrage in the Bengali community. The ...
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