The biggest conundrum in health today is understanding the paradox between China and India. Both countries are justifiably proud of their rich civilisations--histories and philosophies that offer the ...world distinctive traditions and values. Their ideas and beliefs provide deeper and frequently far more interesting insights into human meaning than the empirical iciness of western cultures. But when it comes to health, there is no easy comparison between the two nations.
Written with a tinge of pathos, or subtle humour and irony, the stories assert Tagore's empathy for the poor and the downtrodden, his disapproval of gender hierarchy and caste discrimination, and his ...opposition to the narrow utilitarian pursuit of the material at the expense of truth, creativity, morality and spirituality. ...characters such as Ratan (The Postmaster), Nirupama (Assets and Debts), Hemanta (Sacrifice), Chandara (Punishment), Balai (Balai), Kamala and Habir Khan (A Woman's Conversion to Islam) exemplify Tagore the reformist who relentlessly argued against societal inequalities and injustices. Tagore believed in a dialogic, interactive world, in which communities and nations would bear a deep sense of sympathy, generosity and mutuality towards one another, and shun exclusivity, parochialism and idolatry of geography for a centrifugal outlook, principle of universality and reciprocal recognitions. (xxiii) Translations are often criticised for failing to transport the delicate cultural and linguistic nuances from the source language to the target language.
This article is an attempt to understand the universally acknowledged versatile genius of Rabindranath Tagore and his writings which got permeated with a rich fund of creative imagination by ...rendering his vision and experience freely and spontaneously into his transcreations. It throws light on his mystic vision and cosmopolitan outlook by stating that Tagore is a poet of humanity par excellence. Tagore is a harmoniser trying to build a durable bridge of understanding between man and nature, man and God.
Drawing upon the insights of Rabindranath Tagore, who coined the term viswasahitya to express his own understanding of comparative literature, this essay resituates translation as the cornerstone for ...new directions in world literature. While conventional understandings of world literature tend to reconfirm existing power structures and hierarchies, translation opens up the possibility of thinking beyond the national/global binary by interrogating the lines along which such binaries are conceptualized. Translation operates at the borders that are seen to divide cultures, languages, worldviews and geographies. This essay explores the dynamic relationship between translation and world literature within contemporary South Asian writing, through an analysis of heteroglossia, multilingualism and ‘translatedness’ in selected texts by Mahasweta Devi and Amitav Ghosh, opening up larger questions about multilingualism and also about the very discipline of comparative literature. Highlighting the role that translation has historically played in shaping power relations in the world, this paper projects the transformative potential of translation as the key to a radical reconceptualization of a world literature for the future.
Kumar discussed the Indian culture embodied in Rabindranath Tagore's Natirpuja. Tagore is considered a prolific and versatile writer who successfully tried all the major forms of literature. His ...dramatic art is both simple in style and expression and complex in the variety of its forms and the depth of its meaning. Natir Puja is the simple and most moving play of Tagore. He glorified Indian in the play.
Nation and Nationalism had been enchanting terminologies for historians, politicians, religious leaders, and common people. They are usually fused in the blood and veins of society. Being beguiling ...and enigmatic, the concept of nation and nationalism admittedly have both negative and positive consequences. The thought of Nation has the observable outcome that is supplemented strongly with the nation's people. Could it be, collectively, or individually Nationalism can be grasped as one's love for the country? It is evident that individuals relate themselves with the piece of land that they live and revere putting on pedestal. Nationalism can also be acknowledged with patriotism. Both signify the love for one's nation. Nationalism can be Individual, collective, political, or cultural. Tagore, a renowned Indian writer, acknowledges the destructive effects of the idea of nation and nationalism, particularly in India. The association of culture, religion, gender discrimination and other social set up like caste, with nationalism and its deleterious effects on individual and society are common themes of his writings. Keywords: Tagore, The Home and the World, Identity, Culture.
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Roszak asserts that Hughes's and Tagore's poems for young readers highlight the degree to which constructions of childhood have been implicated in colonialist and racist discourse across the world, ...dem onstrating the importance of decentering Western conversations and seeing global connections in the fight to dismantle structural injustice. ...Vikki C. Terrile's "'One Day You and I Will Let Them All OUT': Attitudes Toward Animals in Hilary McKay's Fiction" adopts a critical animal studies lens in order to consider the evolving representation of nonhuman animals in the popular British author's middle-grades fiction. Noting McKay's interest in animals and animal rights, Terrile argues that novel series such as The Exiles and the Casson Family books illustrate the ways in which animals frequently function as marks of human characters' personality traits or growth rather than as agential subjects themselves.
In the early 1920s, the Viennese writer and journalist Eugen Hoeflich promoted a unique vision of Zionism that aligned Jewish nationalism with a set of anticolonial ideologies collectively known as ...Pan-Asianism. This article explores the poetic and political strategies Hoeflich employed in order to affiliate Zionism with the Pan-Asian idea in general, and the Indian anticolonial struggle in particular. I read Hoeflich's turn to Pan-Asianism as an attempt to work through a conceptual problem that theorist Partha Chatterjee calls the “postcolonial predicament.” That is, how might the Jews assert their collective identity without reproducing the Eurocentric discourses that presuppose their inferiority? Hoeflich's vision of Indian-Jewish solidarity constitutes an imaginative effort to de-Europeanize Jewish nationalism and disentangle Zionism from British imperial designs. On a broader level, this study sheds light on the transnational solidarities that informed central European Zionists in the interwar era, and points to the discursive continuities that linked Jewish nationalists in Europe to anticolonial thinkers in Asia.
This paper examines Rabindranath Tagore's aestheticism with reference to his play Chitra (published 1913). By employing John Keats' concept of 'beauty' as in his couplet: ""Beauty is truth, truth ...beauty,"--that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." (Lines 49-50), from his Ode to a Grecian Urn, this paper contends that Rabindranath Tagore in his play Chitra averts 'material' existence of beauty as ultimate 'truth'. Rather, he lays emphasis on striving towards what Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his Romantic predecessors called "das Absolute" (Gorodeisky), that is, the beauty we find in truthfulness (Satyam), which lacks materiality. Aarti Devi states: "Tagore seems to follow the base of Indian aesthetics known as Satyam Truth, Shivam Goodness and Sundaram Beautiful" (Devi 314). In this sense, Tagore in his play sees 'truth'--an immaterial cognizance--rather than materiality, as the essential form of beauty. And in this capacity, his ideas of 'truth' and 'beauty' peculiarly coincide with the idea of the Romantics, especially with that of John Keats. By obviating 'materiality' from truth and beauty, he illustrates the idea of beauty as truth, not bound within materiality, and hence fundamentally aesthetic. Keywords: Beauty; truth; materiality; immateriality; perception
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