Beyond Westphalia

BY DR MADHAVI PETERS Madhavi’s Address at a recent Tagore event in Bangalore: Beyond Westphalia: Tagore’s Search for an Alternative World Order in Asian Civilizations In 1902, the Japanese intellectual Okakura Tenshin visited Calcutta to invite Swami Vivekananda to Japan for another Chicago-styled Parliament of Religions which Okakura had planned to organize with a “more specific inter-Asian focus”. During the nine months that he stayed … Continue reading Beyond Westphalia

Exploring Tagore’s Realm of Love

BY RUCHIRA GHOSH The Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore is to Bengali literature what Shakespeare is to English literature. Dislodge both, and their magnificent edifices would come crumbling down. It would be no exaggeration to say that Tagore’s versatility and the vast range of themes he addresses often leave readers and audiences overwhelmed—or, to use a colloquial term, mind-boggled. His subjects span the changing seasons, lyrics … Continue reading Exploring Tagore’s Realm of Love