Rabindernath Tagor
Gitanjali (A Collection of Noble Prize Winning Poems) by Rabindranath Tagore (paperback)
Publisher: Lexicon
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9788195025350
Condition : New
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Translated by Tagore himself, the book is a collection of translated poems from the original Bengali version of Gitanjali.
An integration of two words, 'Git' and 'Anjali,' meaning song and offering respectively, the literal meaning of the word is 'offering of songs.' Gitanjali was inspired by medieval Indian lyrics of devotion in which the principal subjects is love, though some poems detail the internal conflict between spiritual longings and earthly desires.
Each poem gives readers an essence of the various elements of Mother Nature and makes one feel connected to nature while reading them. It highlights the poet's intense response to the magnificence of the universe or rather an affirmation of life with all its abundance, mystery and diversity.
Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the English translation, Song Offerings. It is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works.
Nationalism – Rabindranath Tagore (Paperback)
- Publisher : Lexicon
- Language : English
- Paperback : 120 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-8195379545
- Item Weight : 120 g
- Dimensions : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
- Country of Origin : India
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?And yet I will persist in believing
that there is such a thing as the harmony
of completeness in humanity..?
A compendium of lectures delivered by Tagore during the First World War and the Swadeshi movement in India, Nationalism emphasizes Tagore?s political and philosophical views on human understanding and its weakness for power and material hoardings. Packed with erudition and analysis, it expounds the idea of a moral and spiritual growth for human welfare. the lectures?written in a lucid, metaphoric, poetic prose?are loaded with a piercing vision of the future and are a critique on his views on spirituality and humanity.
Tagore was a farsighted visionary, whose forebodings on the lack of human values and the political role of the nation and the state in the East and the West are well articulated in these lectures. Tagore discusses the revival of the East and the challenge it poses to the Western reign, calling for a future based on tolerance, a future where tradition and modernity are balanced.
Tagore?s Nationalism holds much relevance in today?s environment of violence and intolerance.
