TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sinha, Arunava 
TI  - Rabindranath Tagore for the 21st Century Reader
SN  - 9789382277279
U1  - 891.4408 TAG 
PY  - 2014///
CY  -  New Delhi
PB  - Aleph Book Co.
KW  - Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941
N2  - Rabindranath Tagore is the second most popular literature laureate of all time (after John Steinbeck) according to the official website of the Nobel Prize. Writers ranked below him on the popularity chart include Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda and Ernest Hemingway. Tagore won the prize in 1913, but a hundred years later readers continue to flock to his work because it possesses all the qualities essential to keep it fresh and relevant despite the passage of time—big ideas, complex themes, stylistic brilliance, a deep engagement with nature, beauty, family, love, and passion, and above all, a profound timelessness. Keeping the 21st century reader firmly in mind, this volume brings together some of Tagore’s most celebrated works. In The Home and the World, perhaps his most popular novel, intricate issues of devotion—to the motherland and to the family—are explored through a story of two friends and a woman coming into her own. The Monk-King, with its devious priest and mara
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