Professor Amrit Sen

16th March 2015: The River as a motif in Indian Literature and in Rabindranath Tagore’s Imagination by Prof. Amrit Sen

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

13th March 2015: The Home and the World; The Travelogues of Rabindranath Tagore by Prof Amrit Sen

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