The fatal shadow of an all-pervasive epidemic may have become a distant memory for our generation because modern medicine and therapy have progressed and our longevity is blessed. Along came Corona ...virus and the proverbial world of our knowledge went through chaos. We witnessed a new threat along with the microscopic virus- the banality of posttruths. This fear rapidly gets transmitted into the psychology of everyone. And how that fear can infiltrate the common judgement of populace, is the focus of this paper through reading Bengali novelist Narayan Gangopadhyay's short story, Pushkara. The story is set against the cholera epidemic in rural Bengal, where a priest prepares for a midnight Kali Puja at the cremation ground to ward off the evil of Cholera. The offal offered at the altar is consumed by a local vagrant woman, but the intoxicated and hyper tensed priest and his acolytes assume the woman in the dark to be the corporeal form of the goddess itself. Out of abject psychosis, a divine myth is born. Death and disease mark our existence as Susan Sontag called our duality as realm of night and realm of well-being. To attain the realm of well-being, we are often seen to give in to sad repercussions to mete out our existential dread. This essay will show how that fear is no less powerful than the disease itself.
This essay takes up W. E. B. Du Bois's theorization of internationalism, focusing on his representation of India as racial kin and anti-colonial herald, especially his suggestion of an analogy ...between race and caste, by reading him alongside Nobel Prize-winning poet and philosopher, Rabindranath Tagore. I juxtapose Du Bois and Tagore to recover a submerged history of a sustained dialogue between India and the United States over whether race and caste can be thought of as analogies, and what such efforts reveal about transnational method: the politics of comparison outside a core-periphery model, the tangled relations among modernity, race, and caste, and ultimately, the conditions of possibility of the Global South.
Letters to a Friend Tagore, Rabindranath
1928, 20150724, 2015, 2015-07-24
eBook
This title, first published in 1928, is a collection of letters from the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore to C. F. Andrews. The letters have been divided into several chapters, accompanied by ...introductory notes by Andrews, and provide the reader with an expression of Tagore's anxiety about modern civilization and political life in India. This book will be of interest to students of history.
English translations of Rabindranath Tagore have a complicated history of reception. This article contemplates the contemporary contexts in which Tagore translations emerge and circulate, by ...comparing two translations of Rabindranath Tagore's short story 'Shasti' to narrate the terms of representing and translating gender in the global and local literary market. Close reading the translators' decisions in presenting the terminal untranslatable remark in the short story, I track the impact of global rubrics like world literature and local factors like copyright issues to understand the foundational issues of fidelity and fluency in literary translation.
Nation and Nationalism are concepts drawing in admittedly both negative and positive literary reflections. The idea of nation has the observable outcome that is supplemented strongly with the ...nation's people. It could be, collectively, or individually grasped as one's love for the country. Nationalism can also be acknowledged with patriotism. Both signify the love for one's nation. Nationalism is denoted in terms of Individualistic, collective, political or cultural congeniality. Tagore, the renowned Indian writer applying his reflection particularly in the Indian context acknowledges the destructive effects around the cognitive content of nation and nationalism. 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 some philosophical and realistic themes presented in some of his writings. Tagore's steadfast view on freedom indulges in culture within the strata of nation at the same time draws out his disenchantment for violence. He preached and practiced humanity drawing upon his travel exposure and rich education compounded in the rich fabric of Indian culture. Keywords: nation, nationalism, Tagore, humanity, culture
RASA DANCE FESTIVAL Wilcox, Emily
Asian Theatre Journal,
09/2018, Letnik:
35, Številka:
2
Book Review, Journal Article
Recenzirano
Wilcox reviews several dance performances at the Rasa Dance Festival held in Ypsilanti MI from September 23-24, 2017. Presented by Akshara, a Michigan-based arts organization founded by Sreyashi Dey ...and Paroma Chatterjee, the festival featured six works by artists based in Ann Arbor,Washington DC, Troy, Philadelphia, and India.
As a prolific writer of various interests Rabindranath Tagore did not leave himself bothering about women of his time. His presentation of women in his works gave a new dimension of novel ideas in ...the minds of every reader, which helped in erasing the blurred image of woman as useless, futile, unnecessary being, a mortal for pleasure, and brightened their skills, glory, lawfulness, ablility in handling their mind and spirit. Tagore also proved that they are not only the creators of future off-springs but also decision makers of future.
Tagore's humanism is mainly expressed through his concept of inter-personal relationship. The author shall discuss here Tagore's humanism vis-à-vis inter-personal relationship. In order to expound ...this idea, he shall embark on his concept of man; man the finite and man the infinite, man within bounds and man the boundless. Tagore has reflected comprehensively and intensely on the ontological status of man in idiosyncratic dimensions and the revelation of the meaning in relation (a) to nature and (b) to modes of inter-personal relationship. He have also discussed the role of language in understanding inter-personal relationship, and finally arrive at the conclusion that the inter-personal relationship of his and thou takes the form of intra-personal relationship of he is thou. Humanism is emphasizing the importance of human beings -- their nature and place in the universe.
The article explores Rabindranath Tagore's ideas on child education, focusing on Tagore's notion of the child, method and nonmethod in education, a deep understanding of education in relation to the ...child's surroundings, and the ways in which Tagore envisaged the relationship between the child and the teacher--the guru-shishya dynamics. These investigations are transcultural in nature in that they engage with several thinkers and different clusters of ideas from the Western tradition, namely, Tolstoy, Rousseau, William Godwin, Martin Buber, Froebel, and others. The article also demonstrates how some of Tagore's ideas fall in line with certain contemporary discourses on child education.
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