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This beautifully designed collector’s edition holds a concise curation of letters and an autobiographical excerpt of India’s first Nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore. These letters have been translated for the first time for anglophone readers from the original Bengali into English. They give a glimpse of the young Tagore as he stepped out of his home for the foreign world for the first time as he wrote these letters to share bits and details of his journey across the western world.
Replete with lush and vivid descriptions, the writing often glimmers with effortless humor, formative wisdom of the poet in making and yet remains endearingly innocent. To love this book, one need not be familiar with his literature, nor does one need any initiation to see the world he shows, to sail and ride, laugh and sing in a strange new (old) world.
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| Weight | 0.5 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 22.5 × 29 × 1.5 cm |
| Author | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Translator | |
| Language | English |
| Format | Hardcover (Paperback for overseas) |
| Pages | 96 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-81-971522-5-2 |
Watch the conversation between the translator Dr. Manjira Dasgupta and Bishnupriya Chowdhuri by clicking here
Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta. Tagore began to write verses at an early age. After completing studies in England in the late 1870s, he returned to India where he published several books of poetry starting in the 1880s. In 1901, Tagore founded an experimental school in Shantiniketan where he sought to blend the best of Indian and Western traditions. Tagore traveled, lectured, and read his poetry extensively in Europe, the Americas, and East Asia and became a spokesperson for Indian independence from British colonial rule.
Dr. Manjira Dasgupta is attached with the Department of Business Economics, M. S. University of Baroda. She has a number of international as well as national publications, and conference presentations at both international and national levels.
Her areas of interest are Development Macroeconomics and Public Finance. Although an economics teacher by vocation, Dr. Dasgupta’s real passion lies in literature. She has scripted and conducted presentations based on the works of Rabindranath Tagore, the poet laureate. She also finds immense fulfillment in translating Tagore’s work into English so as to reach a large number of readers for whom Bengali is inaccessible but who would love to read and know the poet.
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