The conference “Impact and Internationalism: The Life and Thoughts of Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekananda” aims to explore Sri Aurobindo’s and Swami Vivekananda’s life and thought. We are going to elaborate on Aurobindo’s philosophy and views of human evolution, commentaries on Indian classical texts, his poetry and Integral Yoga. Read more
The Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies launched their website on the 12th of May 2015. On the same occasion, Martin Kaempchen and Imre Bangha launched their book “One Hundred Years of Rabindranath Tagore’s Global Reception.” Read more
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
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
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