Talk by Prof Bashabi Fraser, Director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies, Edinburgh Napier University at the The BIG LIT Festival at The Bakehouse in October 2020 on Rabindranath Tagore as a nation builder and internationalist.
Alex Dunedin is the technical manager of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs) and journal Gitanjali and Beyond, the peer-reviewed open-access international journal, promoting creative writing, artistic expression and research on Rabindranath Tagore’s work and life, his circle and his impact. Read more
This trailer is from a reading at the Southwark Playhouse which took place on February 11th 2020. I have adapted and changed a fair bit from Tagore’s play, not least by putting it into iambic pentameters. Incredible to think that Tagore was writing about these issues one hundred years ago. Nigel Planer Read more
In a letter to C.F. Andrews, Rabindranath Tagore said, ‘We have no word for nation in our language. When we borrow this term from other people it never fits us.’1 Read more
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We are in an exceptionally new situation, but elements of older experiences may clarify our vision if one finds the proper means of access.’1 (2016) Read more