The Essential Tagore. Unput-downable
Monday, May 23, 2022
  • Circulation
  • Advertise
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
Organiser
  • ‌
  • Bharat
  • World
  • Editorial
  • Analysis
  • Opinion
  • Defence
  • Sports
  • Business
  • More
    • RSS in News
    • Special Report
    • Culture
    • Sci & Tech
    • Entertainment
    • Education
    • Books
    • Interviews
    • Travel
    • Health
    • Obituary
SUBSCRIBE
No Result
View All Result
Organiser
  • ‌
  • Bharat
  • World
  • Editorial
  • Analysis
  • Opinion
  • Defence
  • Sports
  • Business
  • More
    • RSS in News
    • Special Report
    • Culture
    • Sci & Tech
    • Entertainment
    • Education
    • Books
    • Interviews
    • Travel
    • Health
    • Obituary
No Result
View All Result
Organiser
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Bharat
  • World
  • Editorial
  • Opinion
  • Analysis
  • Culture
  • Defence
  • RSS in News
  • Subscribe
Home General

The Essential Tagore. Unput-downable

Archive Manager by Archive Manager
Dec 10, 2011, 12:00 am IST
in General
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterTelegramEmail

BOOKMARK

By Dr. R. Balashankar

The Essential Tagore, Edited by Fakrul Alam and Radha Chakravarty, Visva-Bharti (Orient BlackSwan), Pp 761 (HB),  Rs 1500

Rabindranath does not cease to fascinate. Any reader of modern Indian literature must have read, at least the translations of Tagore, to be counted as a good student. And Tagore was a prolific writer. He wrote poems, songs, short stories, essays, travelogues, novels and plays.

Marking the 150th birth anniversary of Tagore, the Harvard University Press has brought out a select collection of his works in The Essential Tagore edited by Fakrul Alam and Radha Chakravarty. The South Asia edition has been brought out by Visva-Bharti. This, according to the publishers, is the largest single volume of Tagore’s works available in English. Translations to this edition have been contributed by Tagore specialists and writers of international repute. Amitava Ghosh, Amit Chaudhuri, Nandini Guha, Somdatta Mandal are among the names. Radha Chakravarty had translated several of Tagore’s major works into English.

In his Foreword  Amit Chaudhuri finds Tagore closer to Josef Beuys (than to Goethe), “as someone who wants not only to address or to influence the world around him, but to rearrange and reorder it — creatively, radically, sometimes physically. As a consequence, Tagore was interested not only in literature but in book design, apparel, and the decorative and cultural aspects of our drawing room.” Amit Chaudhuri’s excellent Forward sets the tone for reading of the book. The following exhaustive introduction places Tagore’s major works with his life story. This helps to connect.

There are selections from ten genres of Tagore’s work — autobiography, letters, prose, poems, songs, plays, stories, novels, humour and travel writing. There is a chronological account of Tagore’s life and suggestions for further reading, adding value to the volume. Interspersed are some rare photographs of Tagore, his paintings and pages in his handwritings.

Radha Chakravarty is Associate Professor of English at Gargi College, University of Delhi and Fakrul Alam is a professor of English at the Dhaka University. It is a book one must have on the bookshelf, for repeated reading pleasure.

(Visva-Bharti, 6, Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose Road, Kolkata 700 017. Marketed by Orient BlackSwan)

ShareTweetSendShareSend
Previous News

Enact  a Journalist Protection Act — NUJ(I) demands

Next News

It is not for the BJP to help Congress  run the government

Related News

Development journey changed in the northeast under Modi, says Law Minister Kiren Rijiju

Development journey changed in the northeast under Modi, says Law Minister Kiren Rijiju

American mosque promotes hatred towards Jews, Christians, and Hindus

American mosque promotes hatred towards Jews, Christians, and Hindus

Delhiites woke up to a cooler morning, mercury dips around 18 degrees

Delhiites woke up to a cooler morning, mercury dips around 18 degrees

PM Narendra Modi to attend Biden’s Indo Pacific Economic Framework launch, meet top business leaders in Tokyo

PM Narendra Modi to attend Biden’s Indo Pacific Economic Framework launch, meet top business leaders in Tokyo

WHO honours India’s one million all-women ASHA volunteers for ‘outstanding’ work in advancing global health

WHO honours India’s one million all-women ASHA volunteers for ‘outstanding’ work in advancing global health

Closer India-Japan cooperation key pillar for secure Indo-Pacific: Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Closer India-Japan cooperation key pillar for secure Indo-Pacific: Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Comments

The comments posted here/below/in the given space are not on behalf of Organiser. The person posting the comment will be in sole ownership of its responsibility. According to the central government's IT rules, obscene or offensive statement made against a person, religion, community or nation is a punishable offense, and legal action would be taken against people who indulge in such activities.

Latest News

Development journey changed in the northeast under Modi, says Law Minister Kiren Rijiju

Development journey changed in the northeast under Modi, says Law Minister Kiren Rijiju

American mosque promotes hatred towards Jews, Christians, and Hindus

American mosque promotes hatred towards Jews, Christians, and Hindus

Delhiites woke up to a cooler morning, mercury dips around 18 degrees

Delhiites woke up to a cooler morning, mercury dips around 18 degrees

PM Narendra Modi to attend Biden’s Indo Pacific Economic Framework launch, meet top business leaders in Tokyo

PM Narendra Modi to attend Biden’s Indo Pacific Economic Framework launch, meet top business leaders in Tokyo

WHO honours India’s one million all-women ASHA volunteers for ‘outstanding’ work in advancing global health

WHO honours India’s one million all-women ASHA volunteers for ‘outstanding’ work in advancing global health

Closer India-Japan cooperation key pillar for secure Indo-Pacific: Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Closer India-Japan cooperation key pillar for secure Indo-Pacific: Prime Minister Narendra Modi

State government achieved many milestones in various sectors: CM Jai Ram Thakur at ‘Baat Bharat Ki’ conclave

Assam CM Himanta Sarma slammed Rahul Gandhi for encouraging separatist elements by describing India as Union of States

Assam CM Himanta Sarma slammed Rahul Gandhi for encouraging separatist elements by describing India as Union of States

CM Pramod Sawant calls for the reconstruction of temples ‘destroyed by the Portuguese’ in Goa

CM Pramod Sawant calls for the reconstruction of temples ‘destroyed by the Portuguese’ in Goa

Assam CM Himanta Sarma says the ‘madrasa’ word should cease to exist

Assam CM Himanta Sarma says the ‘madrasa’ word should cease to exist

  • Circulation
  • Advertise
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy

© Bharat Prakashan (Delhi) Limited.
Tech-enabled by Ananthapuri Technologies

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Bharat
  • World
  • Editorial
  • Analysis
  • Opinion
  • Defence
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Business
  • RSS in News
  • Special Report
  • Sci & Tech
  • Entertainment
  • Education
  • Books
  • Interviews
  • Travel
  • Health
  • Obituary
  • Subscribe
  • About Us
  • Advertise
  • Circulation
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy

© Bharat Prakashan (Delhi) Limited.
Tech-enabled by Ananthapuri Technologies