SynopsisThe Definitive Tagore, a collection of Tagore`s finest works, includes some of his most famous writings such as Chokher Bali, a classic exposition of an extramarital affair that takes place within the confines of a joint family` Gitanjali, verses from his Nobel Prize winning composition` Nationalism, an acclaimed essay which calls for a future based on racial tolerance and cooperation between people everywhere` and some of his best-known stories, including `The Hungry Stones`, a gripping tale of the supernatural, and `The Cabuliwallah`, a poignant portrayal of an adored character of Indian fiction.
Encompassing works of one of the most influential writers of the modern era, this selection will give a glimpse into the mind of a visionary and some of his path-breaking ideas.
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About the author
Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861. He was the fourteenth child of Debendranath Tagore, head of the Brahmo Samaj. The family house at Jorasanko was a hive of cultural and intellectual activity and Tagore started writing at an early age. In the 1890s he lived in rural East Bengal, managing family estates. He was involved in the Swadeshi campaign against the British in the early 1900s. In 1912 he travelled to England with Gitanjali, a collection of English poems, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore was knighted in 1915, an honour he repudiated in 1919 after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. In the 1920s and 1930s he lectured extensively in America, Europe, the Far East and Middle East. Proceeds from these and from his Western publications went to Visva-Bharati, his school and university at Santiniketan. Tagore was a prolific writer; his works include poems, novels, plays, short stories, essays and songs. Late in his life Tagore took up painting, exhibiting in Moscow, Berlin, Paris, London and New York. He died in 1941.?
