In Our Time with Melvin Bragg featuring Prof Bashabi Fraser as specialist
Podcast on BBC 4 where Prof Bashabi Fraser talks to Melvyn Bragg and others about Tagore for the series In Our Time at BBC Radio 4. Read more
Great success: Prof Amrit Sen’s visit to Edinburgh
Professor Amrit Sen and Mr Biswanath Banerjee from Visva-Bharati visited Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee in March 2015. Mr Banerjee has recently completed a joint UGC sponsored research project on Rabindranath Tagore and Science. Mr Banerjee has submitted his doctoral dissertation on “Science, Nation and Literature: Acharya P.C. Ray and Postcoloniality”. Read more
16th March 2015: The River as a motif in Indian Literature and in Rabindranath Tagore’s Imagination by Prof. Amrit Sen
The nadi or the river is a continuous motif in Indian Literature and in Rabindranath Tagore’s literary works – in his numerous poems, songs, plays and prose pieces. This paper will show how the Indian literary tradition finds expression in Tagore’s work. Read more
13th March 2015: The Home and the World; The Travelogues of Rabindranath Tagore by Prof Amrit Sen
This paper seeks to look at Tagore’s theorisation of travel in the context of the emergence of his ides of cosmopolitanism. Tagore’s first travelogue Europe Prabasir Patra (1878) works within the conventions of the contemporary travelogue, marked by a keen sense of difference and a satirical interrogation of the possibility of cultural interaction. Read more
11th March 2015: Rabindranath’s Rammohun Roy and the Complexities of Bengali Identity by Prof Amrit Sen
When he was asked, “who is your hero or heroine in life?” Rabindranath wrote in a confession book – “Rammohun Roy”. The term Rabindranath recurrently used for him was Bhratpathik (The Traveller of India). Why was Tagore fascinated with Rammohun? Read more