Rabindranadha Tagor‚ Gitanjali (Gitanjoli) is a collection of 103 English poems‚ largely translations‚ by the Bengali poet Rabindranadha Tagore This volume became very famous in the West‚ and was widely translated. Gitanjali (Gitanjoli) is also the title of an earlier Bengali volume (1910) of mostly devotional songs. The word gitanjoli is a composed from "git"‚ song‚ and "anjoli"‚ offering‚ and thus means - "An offering of songs"; but the word for offering‚ anjoli‚ has a strong devotional connotation
Premium Rabindranath Tagore Poetry William Butler Yeats
• Educational • Video • About Us The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 Rabindranath Tagore Tagore and His India by Amartya Sen* Voice of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore‚ who died in 1941 at the age of eighty‚ is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes familiar with this large and flourishing tradition will be impressed by the power of Tagore’s presence in Bangladesh and in India. His poetry as well as his novels‚ short stories‚ and essays are very
Premium Rabindranath Tagore Indian independence movement Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The ‘Bara Rani’‚ of a Rajah’s household should have nothing too serious to complain of or lament about‚ especially when the woman is a young and beautiful lady. She is the ‘Bara Rani’; the throne of the household should be her and not Bimala’s‚ who is the ‘Chota Rani’. A woman “of a beauty rarely to be seen”; why she should be jealous of the dark and slim Bimala? In a typical case like this‚ obviously nothing should be plaguing the Bara Rani‚ but it is not so here. She is a jealous‚ manipulative
Premium Woman Sociology
is incapable of understanding the pain that Sonny is going through without music. Music’s power over language becomes a key contributor to the brother’s relationship. Toni Morrison speaks to the power of music at Chinua Achebe’s Seventieth Birthday Celebration‚ “The power of the music would overwhelm the language. Language must stand alone” (Morrison). The power of blues was much more powerful than anything Sonny would be able to say. In order to depict the pain and sorrow that Sonny is feeling he
Premium Black people African American culture African American
Chinese New Year The most favorite holiday celebration in my country is Chinese New Year. It contains threes parts: the preparations‚ New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. The Chinese New Year’s day is different from each year because it is based on the Chinese traditional lunar calendar. For the preparations of New Year‚ Chinese prefer decorate their houses and purchase goods that relate the Chinese New Year’s celebrations. Like people in Western countries prepare for Thanksgiving and Christmas
Premium Chinese New Year Overseas Chinese Fireworks
DIV: A PAPER III: INDIAN LITERATURE SEM III TEACHER: Ms. S. SINHA ‘THE CASTAWAY’ BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE AND ‘TOUCH-ME-NOT BY ISMAT CHUGHTAI: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS. “Some poisons have no antidote‚ but are slow‚ silent‚ torturous ends that curl up the broken body swept into a cold‚ dark corner. There she is left to drown in her tears - a dying heart. Abandoned.” Rabindranath Tagore‚ in his short story ‘The Castaway’‚ draws out the underlying theme of abandonment. The boy Nilkanta’s
Free Woman Pregnancy Short story
Speaking of the friendship between Gandhi and Tagore‚ he quoted a line from Gandhi: "I hope I am as great a believer in free air as the poet‚" a line that is largely omitted when arguments between the two are talked of. Gandhi was the mother of all debates on the future of India‚ surely his debates with Tagore rank as the greatest and most profoundly enriching. Tagore and Gandhi - born in the 1860s in two regions separated by the bulk of the country - were men who came to represent the quintessence
Premium India
The story ’Punishment ’ written by Rabindranath Tagore is a poignant story about two brothers and their wives‚ and the relationship each of them shared with one another. It is a heart rendering tale about conflicting emotions. The story starts when the two brothers Dukhiram and Chidam return home in the village after a long‚ hard day at work. They find their respective wives sitting in the verandah with the elder wife ’s little son‚ eerily quiet. It appears that the ever quarrelling sister-in-laws
Free Marriage Wife Rabindranath Tagore
its own customs and traditions. They are manifested clearly in anniversaries‚ ceremonies and especially on New Year’s Days. In Vietnam every year towards the 15th day of the 12th lunar months‚ everybody begins to strip the apricot trees off their leaves and water melons are seen to be sold everywhere then one is realdy to welcome New Year with all his merriment and joy. They all have their houses whitewashed and decorated‚ buy new clothes for their children and get everything ready for Tet
Premium Watermelon Fruit
19 million other people share a birthday on the same day as you. When 22 football players and a coach are playing in the field‚ even though there are 365 possible birthdays‚ the possibility‚ that two people have a birthday on the same day‚ is 50% !!! More people are born in period from September 22 to October 5 in the United States than any other days. It holds a not-so-surprising significance‚ as conception would have fallen on Christmas holiday and New Year’s Eve. The early Christians
Premium Birthday