Professor Bashabi Fraser gives the John Masefield Lecture on Rabindranath Tagore: A Renaissance Man. Bashabi Fraser bases her lecture on a new book she’s written about Rabindranath Tagore, a polymath who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He embodies the modern consciousness of the subcontinent as he was involved in contributing to the narrative of a nation. Read more
An invitation from Anju Ranjan, the Indian Consul General dated I5th October, 2018…
At Edinburgh College of Art near the Fire Station this summer, there is a large hall that was dark, with limited, pale lighting. Once your eyes adjust to the darkness, you can see certain shapes – of erect nails standing firm, piercing through white sheets. You can imagine them as flags – white flags – but not of surrender, but of purity. There are words on those sheets. Words that survive. Read more
Thali Katori brings together two words that celebrate difference, acknowledge the need for the sensitive appreciation of difference, the virtues of complementarity and the nourishment that poetry and the arts, as vitally as savoury and sweet dishes, dal and other vegetables, gives us, to keep us alive, to refuse, in Hugh MacDiarmid’s phrase, ‘a life deprived of its salt.’ Read more
Thali Katori: An Anthology of Scottish and South Asian Poetry, is a feast of many flavours. Featuring poets from Sir Walter Scott’s time to Vikram Seth and others, Thali Katori celebrates the difference and diversity of the Indian sub-continent and Scotland. Read more