About the Book: Bridging East and West: Rabindranath Tagore and Romain Rolland
Correspondence (1919-1940)
The amazing inter-cultural correspondence (1919-1940) between two cultural
icons of the twentieth century, Nobel laureates from the East and the West: the
Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) and the French novelist, playwright,
and biographer, Romain Rolland (1866-1944), has remained undiscovered for far
too long. This work brings together, for the first time in English, these
letters and telegrams that are among the finest exchanges of thought between the
East and the West, and script the intellectual history of that period. It is
also the story of a profound friendship, where Tagore and