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Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads!Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut?Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee! He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard groundand where the pathmaker is breakingContinue Reading
Gaffer in Rabindranath Tagore’s play, The Post office, is a spiritual wanderer – a “fakir” who has shunned the worldly ways of a family life, and lives on public charity. Of all the characters in the play, it is Gaffer who has the complete understanding and sympathy for the young protagonist,Continue Reading
On the surface level Tagore’s play The Post Office represents the eagerness of Amal, a sick child kept confined in a room, to participate in the activity of life around him. But beyond this apparent simplicity lies its profound meaning. It has been read as an allegory of soul seeking what liesContinue Reading
One of the most remarkable features of Rabindranath Tagore’s play The Post Office is the use of symbolism. Tagore uses different phrases, words, characters symbolically. The reader and the audience need to interpret them for their underlying significance. Tagore himself gave an interpretation of The Post Office. Amal’s confinement to the small roomContinue Reading
Rabindranath Tagore’s The Post Office is widely considered as a play of symbols, rather than a play of characters and incidents. However, unlike most symbolic plays, characters in The Post Office are not shadowy and featureless representing certain abstract ideas or feelings. Characters in the play are highly individualized ones breathing life in theirContinue Reading
The title of Rabindranath Tagore’s play The Post Office is highly significant – thematically, as well as, symbolically. It provides an emotional centre around which the main action of the play emerges. The symbolic significance of the post office is very much complex, and works on several levels in different parts ofContinue Reading
Rabindranath Tagore’s 1912 play, The Post Office, revolves around Amal, a child confined to his adopted uncle’s house by an incurable disease. Inspired by the construction of a local post office, Amal fantasizes about receiving a letter from the king or being a postman. The play was translated into English byContinue Reading
Rabindranath Tagore, a worshipper of universal humanism, depicts two different streams of Nationalism in his novel The Home and the World. The first stream may be termed as Moderation that articulates essentially pure patriotism without showing the aggressiveness of the Extremism that is the other stream. Both these streams surely areContinue Reading
The title of the book The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore can be interpreted at various levels. At one level it tells about the struggle of Bimala in choosing between her ‘home’ behind the purdah, the outside ‘world’ that her husband Nikhil has introduced her to. Moreover, Bimala is alsoContinue Reading
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
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