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International Conference on The Viswakabi and Internationalism: Rabindranath Tagore in the Contemporary World organized under Tagore Commemoration Grant Scheme (TCGS), Ministry of Culture, Government of India
Organized by:
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THE JADAVPUR ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
A non-Profit, Non Governmental Organization
(Registered under The West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961)
29, BRAHMAPUR, GOVT.SCHEME, BANSDRONI, Kolkata 700070
Tel: 09874490250 # e-MAIL: mailtojair@rediffmail.com # www.jair.net.in
ABSTRACTS
Meeting of East and West: Rabindranath Tagore’s Challenging Ideas for World Change
Professor Uma Dasgupta
Renowned Tagore Scholar and leading biographer of tagore
National Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study
He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the path-maker is breaking stones. He is with them in sun and in shower, and his garment is covered with dust. Put off thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil! (Tagore, Gitanjali, 1912)
From the time when Man became truly conscious of his own self he also became conscious of a mysterious spirit of unity which found its manifestation through him in his society. (Tagore, ‘Man’s Nature’, The Religion of Man, 1930)
Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work Gitanjali, Song Offerings. The celebrity he enjoyed for a few years provided Tagore with opportunities to speak to the world through his lectures, subsequently published as collections of essays: Sadhana (1913), Nationalism (1917), Personality (1917), Creative Unity (1922), Talks in China (1924) and The Religion of Man (1931). The ‘English essays’ are not the only works which Tagore wrote in, or rendered into, English, and translations abound from his vast literary and non-literary oeuvre in his native language of Bengali. But these six books are important because they represent what Tagore was able to communicate to the East and West at that time, not
International Conference on The Viswakabi and Internationalism: Rabindranath Tagore in the Contemporary World organized under Tagore Commemoration Grant Scheme (TCGS), Ministry of Culture, Government of India
Organized by:
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THE JADAVPUR ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
A non-Profit, Non Governmental Organization
(Registered under The West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961)
29, BRAHMAPUR, GOVT.SCHEME, BANSDRONI, Kolkata 700070
Tel: 09874490250 # e-MAIL: mailtojair@rediffmail.com # www.jair.net.in
ABSTRACTS
Meeting of East and West: Rabindranath Tagore’s Challenging Ideas for World Change
Professor Uma Dasgupta
Renowned Tagore Scholar and leading biographer of tagore
National Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study
He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the path-maker is breaking stones. He is with them in sun and in shower, and his garment is covered with dust. Put off thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil! (Tagore, Gitanjali, 1912)
From the time when Man became truly conscious of his own self he also became conscious of a mysterious spirit of unity which found its manifestation through him in his society. (Tagore, ‘Man’s Nature’, The Religion of Man, 1930)
Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work Gitanjali, Song Offerings. The celebrity he enjoyed for a few years provided Tagore with opportunities to speak to the world through his lectures, subsequently published as collections of essays: Sadhana (1913), Nationalism (1917), Personality (1917), Creative Unity (1922), Talks in China (1924) and The Religion of Man (1931). The ‘English essays’ are not the only works which Tagore wrote in, or rendered into, English, and translations abound from his vast literary and non-literary oeuvre in his native language of Bengali. But these six books are important because they represent what Tagore was able to communicate to the East and West at that time, not