13 June: Bashabi Fraser will be delivering The Sir David King lecture at the Manchester Literary & Philosophy Society on ‘Rabindranath Tagore’s Life and Work’ at 7 pm at the Cross Street Chapel, Manchester, M2 1NL. Read more
A 12-hour gathering of open-air conversations, dance, music, performance, readings, screenings, workshops, and food at Dundee Botanic Garden
Robert Burns and Rabindranath Tagore, are national bards of their respective nations, Scotland and India, respectively. It is true that they lived on two different continents, separated by time and space, yet there are links between them that this talk focuses on to show how modern they were, implying the progressive and inclusive nature of their outlook and approach, which accounts for their relevance today. Read more
Professor Bashabi Fraser gives a presentation at COP26 talking about Rabindranath Tagore’s vision and work, and how the environment played a central and integrated role in his philosophy. This talk was given on the 30th of September 2021 at the United Nations Climate Change conference in 2021. Read more
Taking visual art as his guiding theme Murdo Macdonald explores the network of interdisciplinary thinkers that included Sister Nivedita, Patrick Geddes and Rabindranath Tagore. Attention is also given to the contribution of Rabindranath’s nephew Abanindranath, the leader of the Bengal school of painting. The analogies between Geddes’s advocacy of cultural revival in Scotland and Tagore’s advocacy of cultural revival in Bengal are also noted, as is the contribution of Ananda Coomaraswamy. Read more