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Rabindranath Tagore on education. As one of the earliest educators to think in terms of the global village, Rabindranath Tagore’s educational model has a unique sensitivity and aptness for education within multi-racial, multi-lingual and multi-cultural situations, amidst conditions of acknowledged economic discrepancy and political imbalance. Kathleen M. O’Connell explores Rabindranath Tagore’s contribution. contents: The tremendous excitement and cultural richness of his extended family permitted young Rabindranath to absorb and learn subconsciously at his own pace, giving him a dynamic open model of education, which he later tried to recreate in his school at Santiniketan. Not surprisingly, he found his outside formal schooling to be inferior and boring and, after a brief exposure to several schools, he refused to attend school. The only degrees he ever received were honorary ones bestowed late in life. His experiences at Jorasanko provided him with a lifelong conviction concerning the importance of freedom in education. He also realized in a profound manner the importance of the arts for developing empathy and sensitivity, and the necessity for an intimate relationship with one’s cultural and natural environment. In participating in the cosmopolitan activities of the family, he came to reject narrowness in general, and in particular, any form of narrowness that separated human being from human being. He saw education as a vehicle for appreciating the richest aspects of ...

Born on May 7, 1861 the Bard of Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore has inspired generations of people through his writings, poetry and thoughts. Tagore was much ahead of his time and his works were loved not only in India but across the world. His much-acclaimed work 'Gitanjali', which was first published in 1910 and later translated and published into English in 1912, won him the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for "his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West." Infact, Rabondranath Tagore was the first non-European to ever win a Nobel Prize! Remembering Tagore on his 160th birth anniversary today, here we list down some of his timeless poems that continue to resonate his creative charm and are still as relevant. These poems reflect upon different moods and are a must read for all. Read on! The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart….. I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house….. But the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house; I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet. Art thou abroad on this stormy night on...

By Adila Matra: Rabindranath Tagore was a great poet, Gurudev as everyone still calls him, put India on the global literary map at a time when the country was struggling under the British rule. Yet, he somehow disappointed his daughters--he married them off at a tender age and could not stand up to his sons-in-law. And though he loved them dearly, he was away at times when they needed him the most, entangled with the setting up of Shantiniketan or in England to get Gitanjali published. But he, nevertheless, had great respect for the women around him, as Aruna Chakravarti's Daughters of Jorasanko reveals. Chakravarti, writer and academic, grew up listening to tales of the great men that the Bengal renaissance had given birth to. Years later, when she decided to wield a pen, she thought it should be to tell the tales of women of Bengal, something that was seldom spoken about. Thus was born Jorasanko, a semi-fictional account of life lived by the women of the Tagore family in the ancestral mansion of Jorasanko. A sequel to the first book, Daughters of Jorasanko carries forward the story. Author Aruna Chakravarti. Photo: Mail Today "There were many women who were part of the national movement. But I couldn't write about all of them," says Chakravarti. "I circled in on the women of the Tagore family who were at the hub of the Bengal renaissance." Every single woman of the Tagore household in the 1900s had an unparalleled spirit. While Jogmaya, Rabindranath's aunt, took on her h...

Rabindranath Tagore in 1909- Author; Generalstabens litografiska anstalt- Bengali, which is also known as Bangla is an Indic language, native to the Bengal, a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia. It is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India. It is also the fifth most-spoken native language and the sixth most spoken language by the total number of speakers in the world. He thus reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 2. He was the first non-European and lyricist to win Nobel Prize Nobel Prize Symbol- Author; Adam Baker- As the author of the “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful” poetry of Gitanjali, in 1913, Rabindranath became the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. His poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial although his “elegant prose and magical poetry” remain largely unknown outside Bengal. As per a statement by the Nobel committee, Tagore was awarded this prestigious award, “because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.” 3. Was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society Royal Asiatic Society Logo- Author; Royal Asiatic Society- The Royal Asiatic S...

B orn in Calcutta into a wealthy Brahmo family, Rabindranath Tagore went on to become one of the most revered poet-philosophers of his time. In 1913, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first non-Westerner to be honoured with the award. A poet, author, playwright and artist, Tagore's creative output was immense. What began as doodling on his working manuscripts became an obsession after 1930 and continued throughout the last ten years of his life. Two of his works will go on sale as part of Sotheby's Leonard Elmhirst (left) with Rabindranath Tagore (centre) Image courtesy The Dartington Hall Trust archive The human face is a noticeable constant in Tagore’s output. As a writer par excellence, he connected human appearance with emotions and essence, something which transcended to his art as well. Tagore’s faces reveal a myriad of moods: melancholic, mysterious, menacing, melodramatic, and romantic. Tagore’s work in general is imbued with sadness. His mother passed away when he was a boy, and his life was marked by continued personal tragedy. He was plagued with grief after the suicide of his childhood playmate, sister-in-law and literary companion, Kadambari Devi, and the years between 1902 and 1907, saw the deaths of his wife, daughter and youngest son. Rabindranath Tagore, Piyali, Pen and ink on paper, 1940 Reproduced in R. Parimoo, Art of Three Tagores: From Revival to Modernity, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, 2011, p. 498 Tagore’s emotional state, solitude and ...