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Book Extract | A Homage to Shantiniketan Ashram and Its Legendary Gurus An excerpt from Gaura Pant 'Shivani'’s book 'Amader Shantiniketan'. Shantiniketan Ashram. Photo: Soumen Ray/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 (Penguin Random House India, 2021), translated into English by Ira Pande. § Gurudev was very fond of outdoor celebrations. A full moon, especially in spring, when the Ashram was awash with a silvery light, was like a personal invitation from Mother Nature to us Ashramites. A notice would come round that we should all assemble at a particular spot in the Ashram that night. And lo and behold...

Rabindranath Tagore's birth anniversary: Remembering Tagore and celebrating his works Today is Rabindranath Tagore's birth anniversary - Pachishe Boishakh - as it is known in Bengali. Tagore - the poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher and musician - is part of the everyday life of an average Bengali. He is one of those great masters of literature whose works hardly left any human emotion untouched. In the introduction to 'Gitanjali', for which Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in 1913, WB Yeats wrote, "We write long books where no page perhaps has any quality to make writing a pleasure...

Reimagining Heroines of Rabindranath Tagore, with Drag ‘I felt to place myself as Chitrangada and climb up trees and rocks’ An evening while sipping a lebu cha with two samosas, in my early college days when I see the name ‘Chandalika’, a play written by Rabindranath Tagore listed to be premiered the very next day. I force a couple of friends who manage to get the tickets and watched the entire show. That was the very first time I was introduced to the Heroines of Rabindranath Tagore. It was a little amusing to be a south Indian Telegu kid in love with Tagore’s Bengali literature. ...