Rabindranath Tagore
Make It Silly Policy
Madhavankutty Pillai
On the pride Rajasthan’s education department takes in evicting TS Eliot from a textbook
The House of Stories
A literary journey that began from the jasmine-wreathed verandah of ancestry reaches the expansive and exhilarating world of the great Indian sensibility
The Forgotten Plagiarism of Tagore
How he ‘inadvertently’ put another poet’s works in his collection and why the episode remained unknown
We Are Blind to Beauty
What the lack of interest in a spectacular show on Tagore tells us about India’s art brigade
Reading the Reader
On Tagore is as much about reading Rabindranath as it is about Amit Chaudhuri reading himself as a reader
From Tagore to Thakur
Durga puja pandals have clay figurines of Tagore. As do Saraswati puja ceremonies. Parents buy their kids Tagore dolls. In a state where the Left dismissed him as too elitist, Sumana Roy observes the canonisation of the poet-educationist
If Buildings Could Speak
Rabindranath Tagore’s architectural and interior designs are reflective of his national ideals, finds artist Samit Das
In Search of Tagore
Photographer Edward Hoppé came to India on Rabindranath Tagore’s invitation. Yet, it is Tagore who seems the most elusive in his photographs
Not Just a Poet
As Asia’s first Nobel laureate enters his 150th year, it is important to remember that Rabindranath Tagore was far, far more than only a poet. He was a painter, an educationist, a philosopher, a truly global visionary and a political activist of rare moral courage.
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