About the Book: Rabindranath Tagore
Polymath Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature, in 1913. But Tagore was much more than a writer. Through
his poems, novels, short stories, poetic songs, dance-dramas and paintings, he
transformed Bengali literature and Indian art. He was instrumental in bringing
Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and strove to create a less divided
society through mutual respect and understanding, like his great contemporary
and close friend, Mahatma Gandhi. In this timely reappraisal of Tagores life and
work, Bashabi Fraser assesses Tagores many activities and shows how he embodies
the modern consciousness of