The Golden Thread of Poetry: Robert Burns and Rabindranath Tagore by Prof Bashabi Fraser

Robert Burns and Rabindranath Tagore, are national bards of their respective nations, Scotland and India, respectively. It is true that they lived on two different continents, separated by time and space, yet there are links between them that this talk focuses on to show how modern they were, implying the progressive and inclusive nature of their outlook and approach, which accounts for their relevance today. Read more

Professor Bashabi Fraser: Director of The Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies.

Bashabi Fraser is the Director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs) at Edinburgh Napier University which has been granted the prestigious Tagore Chair by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) for three years and two ICCR Senior Research Fellowships. Read more

UKIERI Research Project: ‘The Scottish-Indian Continuum of Ideas: The Relevance of Tagore and his Circle’

In our inter-disciplinary UKIEREI project on ‘The Scottish-Indian Continuum of Ideas: The Relevance of Tagore and his Circle,’ we are studying the interchange of ideas initiated in the eighteenth century by Scottish Enlightenment ideas and will understand how they were reinterpreted and reshaped to fit the socio-cultural, religious and literary debates that affected the social fabric and ideology of the times in Scotland and India from around the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Read more