Rabindranath Tagore

In the year 2005 Baul tradition was included in the list of ‘Master Pieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity’ by UNESCO and Tagore played an undeniable role in this cultural upliftment of the Bauls not only in Bengali “Bhadrolok” culture but across the borders. Thus riding on the vehicle of transcription and translation the folk culture of the Bauls has spread its essence and…

The term Nationalism is universal. It is timeless and placeless. It was of great importance, pre independence as well as post independence. The term nationalism means love for one’s own country and respect for other countries. For people to express nationalism it is first necessary for them to identify themselves as belonging to a nation that is a large group of people who have something in common. We celebrate Republic Day, Independence Day but are they enough to show the sense of nationalism?…

Portrayal of Bengali Renaissance in Satyajit Ray’s films Western education / Modern ideas (Mahanagar, Devi) The liberal ideas of the West played a crucial role in the awakening of Bengal. Modern ideas substituted the age old customs and it began with the establishment of Brahmo Samaj and spread of English education. The concepts and ideas from the West forced the educated youth to think in a rational manner and they started despising everything that is traditional. In this concern, the historian…

Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Nationalism in Japan’ is an analysis of the concept of the ‘nation’ and ‘nationalism’. Through this beautiful piece of writing, he has cautioned India and other nations that they must not thoughtlessly adopt the Western notion of Nationalism without first realizing the extent to which it can influence their non-Western culture and the cost that may come with it; “Therefore, you cannot with a light heart accept the modern civilization with all its tendencies, methods and…

As in Gitanjali Tagore has shown his concern to describe the importance of the ecological substance similarly many eco-critics encourages to the humans to realise their connection to Mother Earth and advised them to maintain their interaction with her. In fact Tagore was the great devotee of nature, he considered the nature as his mother, and he urges that humans should create the holy bond to the Earth he says that God cannot be found through prayer in closed space. He says God is Omnipresent,…

(scriptures) and the emotion of devotion of Sree Chaitanya penetrated the Bengali mind deeply. The writers in Bengal, later on, were profusely influenced by this concept of humanism. Bamkim Chandra Chattapadhaya, Sarat Chandra Chattapadhaya, Rabindranath Tagore were among them. Atin Bandyapadhaya very artistically used the method of ‘madness’, a fanatic state of mind to illuminate a halo of humanism in Nilkanthha Pakhir Khonje. Furthermore, Humanism in Bengal was also developed in the form of…

Bose traces the pilgrimage of the Bengali poet, Rabindranath Tagore and connects his observations with the idea of universalism. According to Bose, Tagore’s pilgrimage to Iran was the most important because it was there Tagore witnessed the unity of the Indo-Persian culture. Visiting the tombs of the Persian poets, Hafiz and Saadi, Tagore sought to trace the lineaments of universal brotherhood of Sufi poets bridging the Arabian Sea” (235). The…

imaginative excursions into the outer world in the first Act. This ‘closing’ of the window blocking the sunrays to come inside allegorically signifies the blocking of the mind against the light of knowledge that facilitates all sorts of reformation. Tagore was a person who was instrumental in bringing about reformation in various sectors of the society. He was against any type of…

speech, or appearance.” (Baldick, The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms 3 ed.) Rabindranath Tagore’s use of characterization in The Child’s Return is very effective in understanding the text. One of the main characters in the story, Phailna, is profoundly developed by Tagore. The details that Tagore gives of Phailna helps us understand his feelings towards Raicharan and makes the reader better understand the plot. Tagore writes that Phailna…

Education Means Everything Malcolm X once said, “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” Education plays a very vital role in everyone’s lives. Malcolm is saying that education is the key to victory for the future, without it, it will be very difficult to succeed. Malcolm is trying to say that the people who prepare and learn will have a higher chance of being successful compared to someone who does not prepare or learn. The desire…