Rabindranath Tagore

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Nehru onTagore
"I have met many big people in various parts of the world. But I have no doubt in my mind that the two biggest I have had the privilege of meeting have been Gandhi and Tagore. I think they have been the two outstanding personalities in the world during the last quarter of a century. As time goes by, I am sure this will be recognized, when all the generals and field marshals and dictators and shouting politicians are long dead and largely forgotten."
TAGORE
A Biography of Rabindranath Tagore
by Krishna Kripalani
Rabindranath Tagore was born a century ago in an India which, after centuries of internal unrest, was experiencing under British rule a necessary breathing space of peace and order. But it was, as the author points out, " the peace of the desert. India had ceased to be creative. Politically she was not even aware of the loss of national freedom, and culturally she hugged the trappings of the new servitude or blindly clung to the shackles of the old."... Tovább

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Nehru onTagore
"I have met many big people in various parts of the world. But I have no doubt in my mind that the two biggest I have had the privilege of meeting have been Gandhi and Tagore. I think they have been the two outstanding personalities in the world during the last quarter of a century. As time goes by, I am sure this will be recognized, when all the generals and field marshals and dictators and shouting politicians are long dead and largely forgotten."
TAGORE
A Biography of Rabindranath Tagore
by Krishna Kripalani
Rabindranath Tagore was born a century ago in an India which, after centuries of internal unrest, was experiencing under British rule a necessary breathing space of peace and order. But it was, as the author points out, " the peace of the desert. India had ceased to be creative. Politically she was not even aware of the loss of national freedom, and culturally she hugged the trappings of the new servitude or blindly clung to the shackles of the old."
Tagore was born in 1861, eight years before Gandhi. The Mahatma's place in history is secure, but his great contemporary is less well-known, though he won the Nobel Prize and the admiration of the great literary figures of the West, among them Yeats and Pound.
He was able to show India to herself. The importance of his contribution to her reawakening was subtle and deep, releasing hidden fountains of creative activity in fields which the politician is powerless to exploit.
His first impact was followed, in the West, by a decline of interest due chiefly to indifferent translation; but his stature in the East has increased. This detailed study of his life and work gives a picture of the complete man: poet, playwright, storyteller, musician, and painter. His many achievements were but partial expressions of a restless vitality and zest for life. Vissza