Rabindranath Tagore: A Timeless Mind

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If one takes a holistic look at Tagore's works one would be amazed to discover the breadth of his vision and depth of his thinking on numerous subjects. These thoughts are not bound by any era or the confines of any span of time or geography, they are universal and for all time. He was as relevant in his time as is today and will remain so tomorrow. Tagore is truly A Man of All Ages, and has indeed a Timeless Mind!

It is clear that there is a resurgence of interest in Tagore all over the world. After nearly five decades of quietude following the death of the poet there seems to be a new awareness of Rabindranath Tagore in the West. There is a new propensity to reappraise his works from an appropriate perspective in time, and a new understanding of the complete man and his oeuvre. This is evident from the fact that the volume has received contributions from eighteen different countries, speaking different languages. The diverse group of contributors and choice of subjects for this collection is hardly surprising given Tagore's manifold creative output and interests. There are signs for change and this publication bears the testimony of that resurgence.

Amalendu Biswas was born in Calcutta and educated in India and England. Although his education and training are in scientific discipline his real passion is literature. In his youth he was closely associated with and had edited a number of Bengali ‘little magazines' from Calcutta. In the UK he was involved in many literary and cultural organisations. For the past fifteen years or so he has been closely working with The Tagore Centre of which he had been the Chairperson for ten years. He writes poetry, essays and short stories. He published his own poetry collection, Sangbedan and co-edited an anthology of essays on Tagore called Rabindranath Tagore : A Creative Unity. He lives in London.

Christine Marsh obtained a BA with the Open University, then an MA in Literature, her dissertation being entitled: The Village and the World: A Political Reading of Rabindranath Tagore's Prose Fiction, for which she carried out archival research on Tagore's practical projects in rural reconstruction in the Elmhirst Papers at the Dartington Hall Trust Archive. She is currently part way through her doctoral research with the University of Exeter, on Tagore's English essays, arguing that his humanistic monism, combined with his involvement with the sciences, informed his radical challenges to materialistic Western attitudes and systems.

Kalyan Kundu obtained Ph.D in Botany from both Kolkata and London Universities. Whilst pursuing Biomedical Research on Muscular Dystrophy at the Institute of Neurology, London, he became interested in the work, philosophy and life of Rabindranath Tagore. This passionate interest led him to form an archive of Tagore's work in Britain, out of which eventually in 1985, the Tagore Centre was born. He is now the Chairperson of the Centre. He has authored and edited several publications, in English and Bengali, including HE (translation of Tagore's fantasy writing Sé) and Imagining Tagore: Rabindranath and the British Press (19121941), both of which received critical acclaim in the press and media.

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