Rabindranath Tagore as a creative mind Noted as the first Nobel Laureate of Asia‚ Rabindranath Tagore’s works span across many genres beside poetry. His acquaintance with literature and language started at a very early age. He learnt Bengali‚ Sanskrit and English apart from math‚ history‚ art‚ science and the Upanishads. His introduction to classic literature began with the plays of Macabeth and poetry of Kalidasa‚ both of which he partly translated into Bengali. During these early years Tagore published
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GuruRabindranathTagore ♪♫ Shantiniketan ♫♪ *Home of Rabindranath* ♣Tagore ♣ Shantiniketan (Bangla: Shantiniketôn) is a small town near Bolpur in the Birbhum district of West Bengal‚ India‚ approximately 180 kilometres north of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). It was made famous by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore‚ whose vision became what is now a university town (Visva-Bharati University) that attracts thousands of visitors each year. Shantiniketan is also a tourist attraction because Rabindranath
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Rabindranath Tagore Selected short stories Profit and Loss This narrative briefly describes the short‚ sorrowful life of Nirupama. The name signifies ‘peerless one’ and was given to her by her parents‚ who were gratified with a daughter after having had five sons. Being treasured‚ her father searched long and hard to find a groom he deemed suitable enough for her. He engaged Nirupama to the son of a “grand” Raybahadur who asked for a dowry of 10‚000 rupees. Even though he had no way of paying
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“The Major Themes in the Plays of Rabindra Nath Tagore: A Critical Study” Mrs. Neetu Rastogi M.A.‚ M.Phil.B.Ed Department of English‚ H.L.Y.P.G. College‚ Lucknow. The purpose of the present project is a conscientious Endeavour to explore‚ evaluate and establish the greatness of Tagore’s genius in the literary world that has long been a subject of interrogation and negligence. Tagore made major contribution in the realm of English novel‚ poetry‚ drama‚ music‚ painting‚ poetics and philosophy
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Summary of poem ’Where the Mind is Without Fear’ by Rabindranath Tagore. Included in the volume called Naibedya‚ the original poem bears the title ’ Prarthana’ i.e. prayer. The poem is a prayer to a universal father-figure‚ presumably‚ God. The poet wishes to be awakened to a heaven where the mind can work fearlessly and the spirit can hold its head high‚ where one can acquire knowledge in all freedom of choice‚ where the big world of man is not fragmented or restricted to small mutually exclusive
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man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science‚ is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance‚ obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore‚ Nationalism‚ 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of education is to create a sound mind in a sound body. Great educators in the past have explained the term “Education” as the art of “leading out” which means education is to draw out rather than
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WOMAN UNKNOWN- Rabindranath Tagore **************************************************************** By P. Baburaj‚ Senior Lecturer‚ Dept. of English‚ Sherubtse college‚ Bhutan Author of: Language and writing‚ DSB Publication Thimphu Communicative English‚ P. K. Books‚ Calicut A perception on Literary Criticism‚ P.K. Books‚ Calicut ****************************************************************** First person narrative. A 27 year old man namely Anupam who is immersed in Indian tradition and
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What are the contributions of Mahatma Gandhi in Education? SWASTIK Historical Development of Basic Edcuation Mahatma Gandhi explained the concept of Basic Education through a series of articles in his Harijan magazine in 1937. In the conference at Wardha after a detailed discussion about Gandhiji’s articles the scheme of Basic Education took shape under the leadership of Dr. Zakir Hussain. The following four resolutions were passed. (i) Free and compulsory education should be given
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Critical Analysis of Rabindranath Tagore’s Story ’Kabuliwala’: Love and Waiting Rabindranath Tagore’s story Kabuliwala‚ set in the early twentieth century Kolkata‚ is about a little girl Mini and a Kabuliwala exploring the bonds of friendship‚ affection and parting in the relationship between them transcending the borders of race‚ religion and language. The prime characters are two: Kabuliwala and Mini. Kabuliwala’s name was Abdur Rehman Khan a middle-aged Pathan trader‚ a dry fruit seller from
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Kali Kishen Tagore : In this case the Plaintiff and Defendant were proprietors of land and gardens on opposite sides of a khal in which the tide in the River Hooghly flowed and by which the surface water was carried in a direction from the east to the west into the
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