rabindranath-tagore

  • The True Feminist

    If you read about Bengal of the 19th century, it was a very different canvas for women.  We see in Bengali Society of that time a mindset which strictly followed fundamental orthodoxy, deterioration and gender-based biases towards women. The women folk were forbidden from stepping out of their houses, or to intermingle with fellow males except immediate

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  • The Great Personality Rabindranath Tagore and his works are very relevant today also for the following reasons: First and foremost are the themes of his work: They are worldwide in nature exploring melodies of love, flora and fauna individuality, and devoutness, which reverberates across beliefs and peers. If we look at his poems, plays and

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  • The Spirituality, Devotion and Love in Geetanjali: Rabindra Nath Tagore

    Geetanjali by Rabindranath Tagore is a collection of 103 poems and if you read them profoundly you will notice that each one of them have diverse connotations and denotations. According to Bengali language ‘Git’ means Song and ‘Anjali’ means offering. It was published in the year 1910. In English, the translated version was published in

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  • FEMINISM IN TAGORE’S NOVEL CHOKHER BALI -A GRAIN OF SAND

      When I selected Feminism as my topic for M.Phil. studies, I focused towards western feminism because my social acclimatizing made me look towards the Western literature for progressive thinking.  But I found western feminism not to be universal in its scope. Though it was exclusive in itself, it was more tuned to the western

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