About the Book: Bridging East and West: Rabindranath Tagore and Romain Rolland
Correspondence (19191940)
Dating from 1919 to 1940, these letters and telegrams are being published for
the first time in English in their entirety. They manage to capture the essence
of Tagore and Rollands friendship in their struggle with the conflict between
nationalism and human conscience. This volume also presents three important
conversations the two engaged in at various points in time, as well as letters
by Rathindranath Tagore and others, and lays out the journey of these two
writers towards the imaging of a different world outside jingoistic politics.
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