RABINDRANATH TAGORE Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর‚ Robindronath Ţhakur) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)‚ sobriquet Gurudev‚ was a Bengali poet‚ novelist‚ musician‚ painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive‚ fresh and beautiful verse"‚ he was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. His poetry in translation was viewed as spiritual‚ and this together with his mesmerizing persona
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Critical Analysis of Rabindranath Tagore’s Story ’Kabuliwala’: Love and Waiting Rabindranath Tagore’s story Kabuliwala‚ set in the early twentieth century Kolkata‚ is about a little girl Mini and a Kabuliwala exploring the bonds of friendship‚ affection and parting in the relationship between them transcending the borders of race‚ religion and language. The prime characters are two: Kabuliwala and Mini. Kabuliwala’s name was Abdur Rehman Khan a middle-aged Pathan trader‚ a dry fruit seller from
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relationship between ‘The Postmaster” and ‘The Castaway’. Both have written by Rabindranath Tagore. ‘The Postmaster’ as suggested by the title revolves around the life of a Postmaster and his servant named Ratan in a small isolated village. ‘The Castaway’ revolves around the relationship between a small boy Nilkanta who gets separated from his theatrical group in a storm and finds comfort and motherly love from a woman named Kiran. CONFLICT: The Postmaster Although the Postmaster and Ratan had grown
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the man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science‚ is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance‚ obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore‚ Nationalism‚ 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of education is to create a sound mind in a sound body. Great educators in the past have explained the term “Education” as the art of “leading out” which means education is to draw out rather
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Summary of “The Postmaster”1: Rabindranath Tagore’s short story‚ “The Postmaster” centers around a young postmaster named Dadababu. Dadababu has been transferred from Calcutta to a small Indian village‚ Ulapur‚ for a position as postmaster. He finds himself feeling very lonely and unable to relate to the factory workers around him. Conversation and companionship comes to Dadababu in the form of a young servant girl names Ratan. In an attempt to appease his loneliness Dadababu tells the girl stories
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What are the contributions of Mahatma Gandhi in Education? SWASTIK Historical Development of Basic Edcuation Mahatma Gandhi explained the concept of Basic Education through a series of articles in his Harijan magazine in 1937. In the conference at Wardha after a detailed discussion about Gandhiji’s articles the scheme of Basic Education took shape under the leadership of Dr. Zakir Hussain. The following four resolutions were passed. (i) Free and compulsory education should be given
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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
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* Tagore was born on 7 May 1861. At some time towards the end of the seventeenthcentury‚ his forefathers had migrated from their native lands to Govindpur‚ one of the three villageswhich later came to constitute Calcutta. In the course of time‚ the family came to acquire propertyand considerable business interests through the pursuit of commercial and banking activities. Theyhad particularly benefited from the growing power of the British East India Company.Rabindranath’s grandfather‚ Dwarkanath
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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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