Rabindranath Tagore
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| Title | : | The Home and the World |
| Author | : | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 213 pages |
| Published | : | March 31st 2005 by Penguin Classics (first published 1916) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Cultural. India. Literature. Asian Literature. Indian Literature |
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Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, Sandip. Her attempts to resolve the irreconciliable pressures of the home and world reflect the conflict in India itself, and the tragic outcome foreshadows the unrest that accompanied Partition in 1947. This edition includes an introduction by Anita Desai.Declare Books Supposing The Home and the World
| Original Title: | ঘরে বাইরে [Ghôre Baire] |
| ISBN: | 0140449868 (ISBN13: 9780140449860) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | India |
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an amazing view of swadeshi in the early 1900s India. The three sotries being told seem to reflect the higher consciousness (Nikihl), the concious (Bimala) and the lower conciousness (Sandip). True Bimala loses her way to sensationalism, terror and nationalism but at some point you must pay the piper to your higher self and reflect at some point, Bimala of course does. I loved that Tagore tells the story from three points of view and is able to captuer the voice of Bimala so clearly. This shouldThe Home and the world was my first time with multiple voices as well as my first Tagore. In school I had shied away from reading Tagore because all the Bengali's near me fretted how the good Bengali books got lost in translation!Home and the world changed all that. Whether things got lost in translation I don't know, but, what stood out were the varying degrees of confusion faced by the three main characters. Especially the female character. She personified the factor that even if one fed on
Tagore is markedly different from most contemporary Indian authors. While they offer a window for the Western world to observe the changing nature of a modernizing India, Tagore forces the reader to sit through a detailed lesson of the philosophical, and sociological life of an average Indian.Part of that is, naturally, the context in which he was writing. He is not part of modernizing India, but the nobel laureate who was Indian before the country was independent. He agitated against the
In 1913, Tagore became the first non-Western writer--and to date the only Indian or Bengali--to with the Nobel Prize for Literature. Reading his work, it isn't very difficult to imagine why, since they possess a Chekhovian focus on the lives, thoughts, and struggles of small people in a large world, all laid against the changing politics of the time.Yet the structure left something to be desired: Tagore writes in the first person, but switches characters every few chapters. this could have been
From BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3:A vivid, powerful and compelling story of love, power and political awakening.Tanika Gupta updates Rabindranath Tagore's classic novel to a contemporary British Muslim context.Nusrat arrives in the UK from Pakistan to marry Nabeel, a wealthy, progressive and educated businessman. Fearful of the wider society, Nusrat locks herself away in the house reading newspaper articles that only serve to heighten her concerns. Nabeel encourages Nusrat to broaden her horizons
The Home and the World is a literary masterpiece by Rabindranath Tagore. Set as a love triangle in the backdrop of Swadesi movement in the then Bengal, it is essentially an exploration of the noosphere surrounding the revolution, encapsulating Tagore's personal critique on the movement's ideology. All the three central characters of the novel are distressed, while treading their paths for greatness. Bimala is a young wife who seeks greatness (which every "woman is entitled to") through utmost
My sole familiarity with Tagore's works were singing the national anthem and reading some down-scaled translated version of 'Kabuliwalah', both during school days. But watching 'Stories By Rabindranath Tagore' interpreted by Anurag Basu in an unique manner, on Netflix, aroused my curiosity. The man did contribute a chunk to India's literary heritage, after all!So, the story is about three people: Bimala, her husband, Nikhil, and her lover, Sandip. But it's not really. The backdrop is the
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