Bengal
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The centenary of Tagore’s Nationalism
While the First World War was still raging in Europe, Rabindranath Tagore gave a series of speeches in Japan and…
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Happy Tagore Nobel centenary year!
So 2012 is over. Just to give you an overview, my blog had about 9,200 views during the year, of…
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How Tagore could inspire (Indian) women
Over the past two weeks, India’s news has been dominated by the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in…
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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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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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Shyama in Egypt (Part 3)
The performances of Shyama in Egypt took place the week before the first anniversary of the popular revolution which made…
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Shyama in Egypt (Part 2)
There was an article about the performances of Shyama at the Cairo and Alexandria Opera Houses in the Egyptair in-flight…
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Shyama in Egypt (Part 1)
I know already that I will need more than one post to do justice to the experience of presenting Rabindranath…
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Sustaining Tagore’s legacy outside Bengal
Last Saturday, at London’s Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Samir Khan and Suddho mancha did something remarkable. They organised an event to…
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