Bonjour India: The Gauls come to town Nov 15, 2009
Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray are icons there, even film-maker Adoor Gopalakrishnan has a fan following. And going back in time who can ignore the close associations with Indian royalty, like the house of Kapurthala, inveterate globetrotters who were fixtures on the Paris social scene and insatiable buyers of French luxury goods. (India Times)
Commentary: Let children smile Nov 5, 2009
Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel-winning poet from India, likened childrens welfare to paradise as seen in the eyes of children. With deep love, he said in his poem, "The Child Angel:". (Xinhuanet, China)
Found: Tagore's rare poems inspired by art Oct 15, 2009
A notebook, tucked away among thousands of manuscripts at Visva-Bharati, has yielded a treasure trove 16 unpublished poems of Rabindranath Tagore ... A notebook, tucked away among thousands of manuscripts at Visva-Bharati, has yielded a treasure trove 16 unpublished poems of Rabindranath Tagore. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Art inspired poems of Tagore found Oct 15, 2009
A notebook, tucked away among thousands of manuscripts at Visva-Bharati, has yielded a treasure trove - 16 unpublished poems of Rabindranath Tagore. Whats even better, all these poems are among the rare ones inspired by his paintings. (India Times)
Top Article: Democracy is unfinished business Sep 26, 2009
The more far-sighted among the leaders of freedom movement, men like Rabindranath Tagore or Muhammad Iqbal for instance, used to claim that India had to be freed not just for itself but also for the sake of humanity. The time has come, if it is not long past, for the nation states of South Asia to try and redeem this pledge through a bold and new political initiative at the regional and inter-regional level. (India Times, India)
Celebrating Durga Puja in rural Bengal Sep 24, 2009
But the typical greenshuttered windows and doors took me straight back into those novels by Rabindranath Tagore. Plants and trees had gone wild in all the months my grandfather hadnt visited the place, but the two trees that stood right outside the steps that led up to the house were sane enough for the rest of them. (India Times)
Nehru in '60 foreigners who shaped China' list Sep 19, 2009
BEIJING: Jawaharlal Nehru and Rabindranath Tagore have been chosen among 60 foreigners, who shaped modern China ... Overlooking 1962 war, Global Times, a part of People's Daily, has chosen Jawaharlal Nehru and Rabindranath Tagore among 60 foreigners, who shaped modern China. (India Times, India)
Indian homespun fashion Sep 19, 2009
He says he has been influenced by the beauty of Bengali textiles, the films of Satyajit Ray, the writings of Nobel prize-winner Rabindranath Tagore, the vibrancy of Calcutta theatre and the city's on-off love affair with communism. Fashion writers have labelled him "intellectual", but he describes himself as a modern, practical and a socially aware businessman. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Amit Chaudhuri explores desire, ambition, power in ‘The Immortals’ Aug 23, 2009
Amit Chaudhuri explores desire, ambition, power in The Immortals - The Boston Globe. Local Search Site Search. (Boston Globe)
Christie on a major exploratory research of Bengal School art Aug 19, 2009
"There is very little literature on Bengal School art. So, we are always hard-pressed to feret out the entire history. Rabindranath Tagore, for instance, had visited Berlin years back. That was an unprecedented chapter in history. Then, there were these significant flow of scholars and artists from Japan and China into his university. As an art historian, I am keen to evaluate these aspects of Bengal School art. I plan to visit the Indian Museum, Chintamoni Kars studio and tour Tagores... (India Times)
Poetry quota Jul 9, 2009
Knowing that Thiruvalluvars commentaries and observations would probably not get an airing this time, the bets were on that old Bengali fallback, Rabindranath Tagore, if not a more contemporary voice like Amartya Sen. Unfortunately, Mr Pranab Mukherjee stuck to the utterances of Kautilya, the wily author of Arthashastra, not straying into the choppy waters of Bengali literature. (India Times)
poets ranked by beard weight May 9, 2009
"Which might explain why Rossetti has such bizarre eyes in his portrait. I fully expect that representation to inspire night terrors. said... Lovely article, and beautiful photos to boot.Got me thinking about a famous (nobel prize winning) poet from India - Rabindranath Tagore. Here's a photo:http://chandrakantha.com/articles/tawaif/images/tagore.jpgThe beard is sligtly unkempt, but very white. Eccentricity and wisdom. Anonymous said... I should've thought that Truman Copote, a clean-shaven... (Harper's Magazine)
Tagore flunked school: St Xavier's May 8, 2009
KOLKATA: For those who are struggling in the back benches, heres some hope: Indias best known poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was an utter failure in school and an inattentive student to boot ... Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was an utter failure in school and an inattentive student, according to a document prepared by alumni of St Xavier's School. (India Times, India)
Indian actress joins Cannes film festival jury May 5, 2009
Star of the hindi cinema, she works both with auteur filmmakers and in popular films and is the great-granddaughter of the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. Recommend. (Yahoo! Asia News)
SBI history cell keeps Kolkata's secrets Apr 13, 2009
And on display are the records of current accounts of the likes of Rabindranath Tagore, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Ashutosh Mukherjee and Dadabhai Naoroji. Continued. (India Times)
Introducing our new Asia column: Banyan Apr 9, 2009
The last powerful intellectual push for pan-Asianism was promoted nearly a century ago by Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali Nobel laureate. He was rapturously received on tours in China and Japan, where he urged people to counter Western imperial might and material with sacrifice and an Asian spiritualism. (The Economist)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Mar 5, 2009
Rabindranath Tagore was a poet and writer who also has made his mark in the realm of music and painting. Rabindranath Tagore was a poet and writer who also has made his mark in the realm of music and painting ... Rabindranath Tagore married in 1883 and fathered five children. (Suite101.com)
Newsweek: Post-Mumbai India unity yields to violence Mar 4, 2009
Ganguly holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University, Bloomington and is an Adjunct Senior Fellow of the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles. 2009. (MSNBC -- International)
Trends: The corporate novelists Feb 27, 2009
When Rabindranath Tagore wrote The Postmaster more than a hundred years ago, it never occurred to him to put in bits about the functioning of the nascent Indian postal system. He wrote, instead, about the loneliness of his citybred protagonist, posted in a remote Bengali village , separated from his family and writing poetry to wile away the time. (India Times)
Tagores hand-written letter found in Bangladesh Feb 11, 2009
Dhaka: A rare hand written letter by Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore has been found with a private collector in a Bangladesh village. The six-page letter was found in Patisar village under Atrai Upazila in the northern Bangladesh district of Naogaon. (Sify.com, India)
