This volume of 22 essays spans a wide trajectory, foregrounding the texts of Tagore and Tagore as text. The Tagorean spirit that makes the bard so relevant in the 21st century forms the basis of this ...compilation. Tagore's travels to various parts of the world, his reception and response to diverse cultures, his scepticism about the rigid parameters of nationalism all establish the perception that Tagore was remarkably at home in the world.
Tagore's concern was with life, play and contingency-with the momentary as well as the eternal. It is this strain of unacknowledged modernism and life-affirming vision that make his work powerful. A believer in freedom of the individual, creative freedom and freedom of all, his words are as pertinent in today's context as they were in his time.
This volume analyses how the constrictions of the specificities of place, location and geographies have always been interrogated by Tagore for whom space was a defining trope. With contributions from some leading Tagore experts both from India and abroad, this volume enables us to re-read Tagore as a messenger of world harmony and peace.
Maneesha and Pradeek discusses the lives and works of two prominent writers from India, Rabindranath Tagore and M. T. Vasudevan Nair. Tagore, born in Calcutta in 1861, dedicated his life to ...education, religion, and peace. He founded the famous Shantiniketan School and received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. Nair, born in Kerala in 1933, is known for his contributions to Indian literature, including novels, short stories, and dramas. Many of his works have been translated into English and Hindi, and he has received numerous awards for his writing. They also offer a a brief overview of their backgrounds and achievements.
In the years 1910-1930, the Indian Rabindranath Tagore was the first living Asian writer to enjoy a world literary fame, which led him to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. In the ...years preceding World War One and in the early 1920s, the circulation of his work in Europe was a two-phase process. First, in terms of location, his work circulated from India to England, and then from England to the other countries. Second, his books were translated from Bengalese to English, before being translated into other European languages. These multiple mediations and these period changes were not without consequences. As a result, Tagore's work was not only read in Europe, but in India, Asia, and across the global world. This article tries to seize the way in which the writer viewed Europe as well as his reception on the continent.
Gandhi and Tagore Mukherji, Gangeya
2016, 20151106, 2015, 2015-11-06
eBook
This book brings together the political thought of Gandhi and Tagore to examine the relationship between politics, truth and conscience. It explores truth and conscience as viable public virtues with ...regard to two exemplars of ethical politics, addressing in turn the concerns of an evolving modern Indian political community.
The comprehensive and textually argued discussion frames the subject of the validity of ethical politics in inhospitable contexts such as the fanatically despotic state and energised nationalism. The book studies in nuanced detail Tagore's opposition to political violence in colonial Bengal, the scope of non-violence and satyagraha as recommended by Gandhi to Jews in Nazi Germany, his response to the complexity of protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and the differently constituted nationalism of Gandhi and Tagore. It presents their famous debate in a new light, embedded within the dynamics of cultural identification, political praxis and the capacity of a community to imbibe the principles of ethical politics.
Comprehensive and perceptive in analysis, this book will be a valuable addition for scholars and researchers of political science with specialisation in Indian political thought, philosophy and history.
Gangeya Mukherji is Reader in English at Mahamati Prannath Mahavidyalaya, Mau-Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India.
A century ago, activists confronting racism and colonialism-in
India, South Africa, and Black America-used print media to connect
with one another. Then, as now, the most effective medium for their
...undertakings was the English language. Imperfect Solidarities:
Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone tells the
story of this interconnected Anglophone world. Through Rabindranath
Tagore's writings on China, Mahatma Gandhi's recollections of South
Africa, and W. E. B. Du Bois's invocations of India, Madhumita
Lahiri theorizes print internationalism. This methodology requires
new terms within the worldwide hegemony of the English language
("the global Anglophone") in order to encourage alternate
geographies (such as the Global South) and new collectivities (such
as people of color).
The women of print internationalism feature prominently in this
account. Sonja Schlesin, born in Moscow, worked with Indians in
South Africa. Sister Nivedita, an Irish woman in India,
collaborated with a Japanese historian. Jessie Redmon Fauset, an
African American, brought the world home to young readers through
her work as an author and editor.
Reading across races and regions, genres and genders,
Imperfect Solidarities demonstrates the utility of the
neologism for postcolonial literary studies.
Speaking of translations, one cannot but remember the works of Homer and Virgil, the translations of which have greatly contributed to changes in western thought and civilization. The works of ...Rabindranath Tagore written in Bengali, but carefully translated into English, have conveyed to the western world the power of an uncorrupted eastern mind. Tamil is a language with a continuous literary tradition from ancient times to the present. The sangam anthologies constitute a highly unified literary corpus, defined not only by its chronological placement in Tamil literary history, but also by a shared repertoire of situations, settings, characters, and poetic figures. One of the oldest regional literatures from the Indian subcontinent, Tamil literature is known for the beauty of its classical love poetry and heroic poetry, the variety of its religious texts, and the existence of a sophisticated and self-critical commentarial traditional.
Gitanjali's Weak Theology Iyer, Bharatwaj
Cross currents (New Rochelle, N.Y.),
June 2019, 20190601, Letnik:
69, Številka:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
Gitanjali contains 103 songs in the English translation by the author. and every single one contains religious or, even, theological significance. So, it does make sense to consider the songs as ...offerings to God. The difficulty arises when one tries pinning this God down.
Atorvastatin-80mg/day and Rosuvastatin-40mg/day are the commonest high-dose statin (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme-A reductase inhibitors) regimes for post-PCI (Percutaneous Coronary ...Interventions) patients to lower (by ≥50%) blood low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). Dearth of conclusive evidence from developing world, regarding overall safety, tolerability and comparative effectiveness (outcome/safety/tolerability/endothelial inflammation control) of Rosuvastatin over Atorvastatin in high-dose, given its higher cost, called for an overall and comparative assessment among post-PCI patients in a tertiary cardiac-care hospital of Kolkata, India.
A record-based non-concurrent cohort study was conducted involving 942 post-PCI patients, aged 18-75 years, on high-dose statin for three months and followed up for ≥one year. Those on Atorvastatin-80mg (n = 321) and Rosuvastatin-40mg (n = 621) were compared regarding outcome (death/non-fatal myocardial infarction: MI/repeated hospitalization/target-vessel revascularisation/control of LDL and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein: hsCRP), safety (transaminitis/myopathy/myalgia/myositis/rhabdomyolysis), tolerability (gastroesophageal reflux disease: GERD/gastritis) and inflammation control adjusting for socio-demographics, tobacco-use, medications and comorbidities using SAS-9.4.
Groups varied minimally regarding distribution of age/gender/tobacco-use/medication/comorbidity/baseline (pre-PCI) LDL and hs-CRP level. During one-year post-PCI follow up, none died. One acute MI and two target vessel revascularizations occurred per group. Repeated hospitalization for angina/stroke was 2.18% in Atorvastatin group vs. 2.90% in Rosuvastatin group. At three-months follow up, GERD/Gastritis (2.18% vs 4.83%), uncontrolled hs-CRP (22.74% vs 31.08%) and overall non-tolerability (4.67% vs. 8.21%) were lower for Atorvastatin group. Multiple logistic regression did show that compared to Atorvastatin-80mg, Rosuvastatin-40mg regime had poorer control of hs-CRP (A3OR = 1.45,p = 0.0202), higher (A3OR = 2.07) adverse effects, poorer safety profile (A3OR = 1.23), higher GERD/Gastritis (A3OR = 1.50) and poorer overall tolerability (A3OR = 1.50).
Post-PCI high dose statins were effective, safe and well-tolerated. High dose Rosuvastatin as compared to high dose Atorvastatin were similar in their clinical efficacy. Patients treated with Atrovastatin had significantly lower number of patients with hs-CRP (high-sensitivity C-reactive protein)/C-reactive protein (CRP) level beyond comparable safe limit and relatively better tolerated as opposed to Rosuvastatin-40mg.Thus given the lower price, Atorvastatin 80mg/day appeared to be more cost-effective. A head-to-head cost-effectiveness as well as efficacy trial may be the need of the hour.
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