“rabindranath tagore”

American Experience and Other Articles is a collection of lectures and addresses delivered by Rabindranath Tagore in America and other countries across the world. In ‘American Experience’, the author relates his trip to the USA in 1916-17, where he faced a hostile reaction from Liberal Americans... More

Mahendra is besotted with his wife Ashalata. Binodini, a young widow of exquisite beauty and sparkling mind, comes to live in his house. The intense love between Mahendra and his wife inflames Binodini's repressed sexuality. She manages to captivate Mahendra. At another level, the story is an interp... More

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Bengali writer to elevate the short story to a serious art-form. Here in this collection are some of his finest stories that have been translated by a distinguished panel of translators to retain the delicate beauty of the original. Written mostly during the 1890s, ... More

Vinodini is an all time great romantic novel. It is about the age-old yet ever-new love triangle. A love story flowing through mental moves and counter moves. The libido, the lust, bordering on the insanity of a helpless widow who wishes to compete through her back-stabbing, though remaining within ... More

Rabindranath Tagore Omnibus IVbrings under one roof six ofTagore’s major works. Two Sisters is about the eternal conflict that arises when a man does not find a mother figure and a sweetheart in the same person. Sadhana contains eight essays written during Tagore’s six-month stay in the ... More

Race Conflict and other Speeches is an anthology of some of Tagore's most compelling speeches, including his moving Address at the Parliament of Religions (1937), the world over where he discusses some of the most crucial conflicts that the human race is faced with. His almost-lyrical speeches revea... More

Fruit Gathering was first published in 1916. Three varying styles of thought and writing merge in Fruit Gathering and one is presented with a mystic Tagore with only one voice. The poems collected are from Gitimala, Gitali, Naivedya, Kheya etc.One of India's most cherished renaissance figures, Rabin... More

As a supreme symbol of India's culture and spirit, Tagore was a contemporary of the other colossus of nineteenth-century India, Mahatma Gandhi. These two towering figures came to represent the essence of Indian thought and life in the modern age. Contemporaries and icons of our freedom struggle move... More

Poems from Puravi is a collection of seven poems. The translator is Kshitis Roy, former curator of the Tagore Museum at Santiniketan and editor of Viswa-Bharati Quarterly for many years.One of India's most cherished renaissance figures, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) put India on the literary map o... More

The Centre of Indian Culture was a lecture delivered in Madras on 9 February 1919. It is supposed to be the first lecture delivered by Tagore in English in India. It deals with what should be the ideal of education in India.One of India's most cherished renaissance figures, Rabindranath Tagore (1861... More