Rabindranath Tagore’s Home and the World is a product of the crisis of that time, and as a political novel it echoes through its narration a large number of attitudes, not always compatible with the colonial experience. The novel deals with the experience of modernity and the price one has to payContinue Reading
Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali Rabīndranāth Ṭhākur, (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, painter, educator, philosopher and humanitarian. He also composed roughly 2,230 songs. His writings address a variety of topics. He was highly influential in introducing Indian culture to the west andContinue Reading
Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World (originally Ghare-Baire, 1916) is a powerful political and psychological novel set in early 20th-century Bengal during the Swadeshi movement. Written in the backdrop of India’s struggle for independence from British colonial rule, the novel explores the tension between nationalism and personal freedom, traditionContinue Reading
