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
An international peer reviewed e-journal brought out by the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs), Edinburgh Napier University
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
Dear Supporters, Transnational Literature is delighted to be issuing the first Call for Papers from its new home at Bath Spa University. Our submissions are now open for the upcoming issue, to be published in late November 2020. Read more
This is the concept note for the conference hosted by Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka on 22nd and 23rd February 2019 which focused on Samaj and Freedom(s) – The relevance of Gandhi and Tagore’s Ideas Today Read more
Human and non-human bodies have always been immersed in a sensory world of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and sensations. In the long twentieth century, these have been enmeshed with power by enacting hierarchies of the senses themselves (sight being the most superior followed by sound, smell, taste and so on) which in turn were used (i) to perform distinction across race, caste, class and gender hierarchies (black and brown/Dalit/working-class/menstruating women’s bodies have often been described as “dirty”, “smelly”, “noisy”) and (ii) structure technologies (such as audio and video media (gramophone, cinema, radio etcetera)). Read more