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A tribute to Steve Jobs
This morning, I woke to the sad news of the premature death of Steve Jobs. He is acknowledged in the…
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Tagore and the Indian national anthem
In advance of India’s Independence day today, India’s Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, unveiled a 10-minute version of the Indian national…
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Tagore and the great wall of … Santiniketan?
A controversy has been brewing for the past two years in Tagore’s home town of Santiniketan about the 21km, 6ft-8ft…
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Civilisation’s crisis – Tagore’s last speech
For his 80th birthday, Tagore wrote what was to be his last speech. It was entitled “Civilisation’s crisis”. As Western…
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Getting the Tagore dance film trilogy onto Facebook
Last night, I finally succeeded in making the ‘Tagore dance film trilogy’ Facebook application work! The application allows the films…
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Shakespeare & Tagore birthday celebrations
Kaberi and I were privileged to attend the birthday celebrations of two literary giants in Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare’s birthday, which is…
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Shyama & Chandalika now on Dynamo Player
Chandalika had its world première on Sunday evening at the Stratford-upon-Avon Picturehouse, with the help of its manager Greg Eden-Field.…
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Celebrating Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary
In less than two weeks, it will be the 150th birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, who was born…
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A Tagore evening to remember
As you will have realised, last Sunday was the world premiere of Chitrangada in Brussels. The English-subtitled version of the film is…
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Tagore’s poetry in 13 European languages
In my blog post at the end of July about staging The Story of Gitanjali in Brussels during the charity…
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Tagore’s European legacy
The process of finding actors to perform each of the 13 poems in The Story of Gitanjali in a different…
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Tagore’s relevance
While researching the different translations of Tagore’s English Gitanjali for our performance of The Story of Gitanjali on 23 September,…
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If, hearing your call, no-one comes, then go on alone
This morning, as I read the blog post ‘Once in a lifetime’ by our friend AJ Leon, I was reminded…
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A day (or two) of excitement
Yesterday morning, I heard that Chitrangada has been translated into Chinese by Professor Mao Shichang of Lanzhou University. In March…