Prof Indra Nath Choudhuri delivered a lecture on “Upanishads: The Oneness between the Limitless Infinite and the Finite” at the Royal Asiatic Society, London on 16 October 2014. Lecture at the Royal Asiatic Society
Prof Tapati Mukherjee was scheduled to travel to Edinburgh with Prof Amrit Sen at the end of September 2014 and lectures, library visits and research meetings had been arranged for them in the UK, prior to their travel. Prof Fraser booked and paid in advance for a flat with self-catering facilities for a period of two weeks in Edinburgh to accommodate Prof Mukherjee and Prof Sen for the duration of their research trip. Read more
Tagore Concert with the Belgian violinist, Hans Vermeersch playing 14 Tagore Songs translated with notations by Arthur Geddes, accompanied with readings by Marion Geddes and vocalist Payal Debroy.
In order to start the UKIERI Project effectively, Prof Bashabi Fraser, the Principal Investigator at Edinburgh Napier University, visited Visva-Bharati in July 2014 and had research planning meetings with Prof Tapati Mukherjee, the Principal Investigator from Visva-Bharati, Prof Amrit Sen and two PhD scholars who are on the UKIERI project team. Read more
In our inter-disciplinary UKIEREI project on ‘The Scottish-Indian Continuum of Ideas: The Relevance of Tagore and his Circle,’ we are studying the interchange of ideas initiated in the eighteenth century by Scottish Enlightenment ideas and will understand how they were reinterpreted and reshaped to fit the socio-cultural, religious and literary debates that affected the social fabric and ideology of the times in Scotland and India from around the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Read more