Nobel Prize

From Gitanjali to Song Offerings: Story of a metamorphosis by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay

If there is one book that changed the whole literary scene of a country or even a continent, it is most likely to be ‘Gitanjali: Song Offerings’ by Rabindranath Tagore. The book contains a small collection of poems and is written in an Indian context but is at the same time universal; it is philosophical but at the same time musical. Read more

Travelling the World for Visva-Bharati

Rabindranath travelled almost incessantly. He went several times to England, to Continental Europe, to the United States of America, to Japan, to Ceylon, to Egypt, to China, to Burma, to Argentina, to Russia, and to the countries of South East Asia. Explaining his migratory instinct he wrote to his younger daughter Mira: Read more