Rabindranath Tagore, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Rabindranath Tagore, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
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Rabindranath Tagore

Author: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

Narrator: Anuj Datta

Unabridged: 10 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/29/2020


Synopsis

"This intellectual biography of Tagore, perhaps the first of its kind, portrays him as a man who was deeply skeptical, self-critical, tormented by conflicts in his inner life , aware of the historical significance of his times and continually interacted with adversaries and friends across the world; someone who built on the heritage of the nineteenth century renaissance in India and became one of the makers of the modern Indian mind.
Rabindranath Tagore: an Interpretation situates the iconic figure in the history of his tumultuous times of an India in the throes of the national struggle for independence and of a world moving from Victorian stability to the turmoil of World War II. Coinciding with his 150th birth anniversary, it illuminates Tagore s extraordinary contributions: as a poet and writer, nationalist and ideologue, educationist and philosopher, composer and painter."

About The Author

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya retired as Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been Vice-Chancellor of Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, and Chairman, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. His recent publications are: Talking Back: the Idea of Civilization in the Indian Nationalist Discourse; The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters and Debates between Gandhi and Tagore; Vande Mataram: the Biography of a Song.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny on September 16, 2018

I visited India for the first time last week, and I'm afraid I saw hardly anything. I was attending the Interspeech 2018 conference in Hyderabad, and I never got further than looking around the Novotel, where the conference was held, the Trident, where I was staying, and the road between them. I ate......more

Goodreads review by Su_ghosh on November 17, 2015

Rabindranath Tagore was an incredible man. To say that he was just a ‘great poet’ would be an understatement. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to equate his vision and philosophy to that of ‘a prophet.’ The book in reference provides a good overview of Tagore’s background and how it shaped his univers......more

Goodreads review by Samir on February 06, 2021

For those like me, who are always hungry to know more and more about Rabindranath Tagore, this book is a gold mine to dig in. Other than commentaries on Gurudev's literary work, the author Sabyasachi Bhattacharya has brought forth the ideas that drove Tagore. For those who have never read Tagore and......more