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
Prof Bashabi Fraser gave the inaugural lecture at the opening of the Tagore Centre at Manipul Univeristy, Karnataka. Her lectures was entitled ’The Relevance of Tagore Studies Today’. This was also an opportunity to disseminate the significance of the “Continuum of Ideas,” which is central to the theme of the UKIERI project. Read more
Dr Kupfer was invited to give a public talk on “Tagore’s imperialism of love” and take part at a round table discussion in Innsbruck, Austria. Public talk in Innsbruck Read more
The Tagore Film Festival took place at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh.