Rabindranath Tagore‚ popularly known as “the Shelley of Bengal.” Tagore was a Ben¬gali‚ but he belongs to the whole world‚ not to speak of India. He was a universalistic and a humanist through and through. Tagore was born on May 6‚ 1861 in Calcutta. He came from a rich family of land¬lords. But he had the milk of human kind-ness for the poor and the downtrodden. Tagore was not sent to any school‚ he was taught at home. He was a highly preco¬cious child. As such‚ he was capable of learning more
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Summary of poem ’Where the Mind is Without Fear’ by Rabindranath Tagore. Included in the volume called Naibedya‚ the original poem bears the title ’ Prarthana’ i.e. prayer. The poem is a prayer to a universal father-figure‚ presumably‚ God. The poet wishes to be awakened to a heaven where the mind can work fearlessly and the spirit can hold its head high‚ where one can acquire knowledge in all freedom of choice‚ where the big world of man is not fragmented or restricted to small mutually exclusive
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Rabindranadha Tagor‚ Gitanjali (Gitanjoli) is a collection of 103 English poems‚ largely translations‚ by the Bengali poet Rabindranadha Tagore This volume became very famous in the West‚ and was widely translated. Gitanjali (Gitanjoli) is also the title of an earlier Bengali volume (1910) of mostly devotional songs. The word gitanjoli is a composed from "git"‚ song‚ and "anjoli"‚ offering‚ and thus means - "An offering of songs"; but the word for offering‚ anjoli‚ has a strong devotional connotation
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• Educational • Video • About Us The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 Rabindranath Tagore Tagore and His India by Amartya Sen* Voice of Bengal 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
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DIV: A PAPER III: INDIAN LITERATURE SEM III TEACHER: Ms. S. SINHA ‘THE CASTAWAY’ BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE AND ‘TOUCH-ME-NOT BY ISMAT CHUGHTAI: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS. “Some poisons have no antidote‚ but are slow‚ silent‚ torturous ends that curl up the broken body swept into a cold‚ dark corner. There she is left to drown in her tears - a dying heart. Abandoned.” Rabindranath Tagore‚ in his short story ‘The Castaway’‚ draws out the underlying theme of abandonment. The boy Nilkanta’s
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The story ’Punishment ’ written by Rabindranath Tagore is a poignant story about two brothers and their wives‚ and the relationship each of them shared with one another. It is a heart rendering tale about conflicting emotions. The story starts when the two brothers Dukhiram and Chidam return home in the village after a long‚ hard day at work. They find their respective wives sitting in the verandah with the elder wife ’s little son‚ eerily quiet. It appears that the ever quarrelling sister-in-laws
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Tagore - A Life Of Learning An Azim Premji University Publication People and Ideas Azim Premji University Text: Selections from Tagore’s own writings ( original and translations) Concept and Design: Jayshree Nair-Misra‚ Azim Premji University Illustrations: Biswajith Manimaran‚ Srishti School of Design‚ Bangalore. Published by Azim Premji University 2012 Printed by SCPL DESIGN‚ 2nd Flr | 2/1 JC Indl Area Kanakapura Road‚ Bangalore - 560 062‚ India Tagore - A Life of Learning Azim
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Freedom Tagore was a lover of human freedom. Influenced by the western liberalism‚ Tagore opined that freedom of a nation will provide ample scope to its citizens to express their view openly. His idea on freedom contained the following things. Enlightenment of soul through self-realization: Freedom will provide opportunity to attain enlightenment of soul. It is only because by pursuing a goal in an atmosphere of freedom‚ one will get scope to realize one’s self. That self-realization will enlighten
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The youngest of thirteen surviving children‚ Tagore was born in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta (now Kolkata) of parents Debendranath Tagore (1817–1905) and Sarada Devi (1830–1875).ε[›][11] Tagore family patriarchs were the Brahmo founding fathers of the Adi Dharm faith. He was mostly raised by servants‚ as his mother had died in his early childhood; his father travelled extensively.[12] Tagore largely declined classroom schooling‚ preferring to roam the mansion or nearby idylls: Bolpur‚ Panihati
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Rabindranath did not write a central educational treatise‚ and his ideas must be gleaned through his various writings and educational experiments at Santiniketan In general‚ he envisioned an education that was deeply rooted in one’s immediate surroundings but connected to the cultures of the wider world‚ predicated upon pleasurable learning and individualized to the personality of the child. He felt that a curriculum should revolve organically around nature with classes held in the open air under
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