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  • The Rabindranath Tagore Issue is Parabaas's attempt to host a bi-lingual portal to the diverse literature on Tagore available on the Web as well as to be the central point of a Web-based research project on Tagore. We will publish essays, criticisms, biographical articles and other items, including satires, caricatures, audio and video files related to Tagore and his work. The articles will be either in Bengali or in English. The site will be periodically updated. As with all other sites hosted by Parabaas, a large part of the content is composed of contributions from our readers. We greatly encourage our readers and Tagore enthusiasts to share with us their Tagore-related work. After all, only the ... more...
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  • Professor new! - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Carolyn B. Brown
    Rabindranath Tagore | Story | May 2024
    Just then, shy and glowing, like a vine after a gentle rain, Kiran entered the room accompanied by Bamacharan-babu, the new professor at our college. There was nothing left for me to understand. That night I went home and burned the notebook that contained my writing. I went back to my village and got married.

    I never wrote the great epic that I’d planned to write on the bank of the Ganges, but my life was the better for it.
    Where the mind knows no fear - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Palash Baran Pal
    Rabindranath Tagore | Poem : ধারাবাহিক | December 2023
    When I don't see you - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Palash Baran Pal
    Rabindranath Tagore | Poem : ধারাবাহিক | December 2023
    Bug Logic - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Palash Baran Pal
    Rabindranath Tagore | Poem : ধারাবাহিক | December 2023
    Three Poems - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Palash Baran Pal
    Rabindranath Tagore | Poem : ধারাবাহিক | December 2023
    Where the mind knows no fear; When I don't see you; and Bug Logic
    Twelve Poems from Gitanjali - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Carolyn B. Brown
    Rabindranath Tagore | Poem : ধারাবাহিক | November 2023
    The translations follow the numbering of Tagore’s Bengali Gitanjali.
    Listening to Gitanjali: Parables for Translators - Carolyn B. Brown
    Rabindranath Tagore | Essay : ধারাবাহিক | November 2023
    The very compactness of the poems in Bengali is a challenge: Could an English version possibly come close to their frugality, allowing only a few words within a line? The twelve translations from Gitanjali that accompany this essay are an experiment in minimalism, shaped as well by a second question: What if the translator were to insist on
    Tagore in Gora - Indranil Dasgupta translated from Bengali to English by Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra
    Rabindranath Tagore | Essay | July 2022
    Gora is not just a soap opera. For one thing, no one takes the trouble to present a significant idea in a soap opera. Much of what Tagore wanted to say through Gora is also seen in the story of his own life. Written by a great poet, Gora is not only exceptional for its outstanding use of language but also for a vitality and ambition which, like Tagore himself, is unparalleled in Bengali literature. An indefatigable
    Tagore song, Grief. Death. The pain of parting. - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Nandini Gupta
    Rabindranath Tagore | Poem | May 2022
    Translation of the lyrics of "achhe du:kho, achhe mrityu....." (আছে দুঃখ, আছে মৃত্যু)
    Tagore song, When my steps no longer put their imprint - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Gargi Chatterjea
    Rabindranath Tagore | Poem | May 2022
    Translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Song: Jokhon "Porbe Na Mor Payer Chihnha..." (যখন পড়বে না মোর পায়ের চিহ্ন...)
    The Horse - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Palash Baran Pal
    Rabindranath Tagore | Story | May 2021
    If the horse were left free in the fields it might get away, so man put walls around it. The tiger had forests, it stayed in the forest. The lion had caves, no one claimed it. But the horse had...
    The Jester - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Palash Baran Pal
    Rabindranath Tagore | Story | May 2021
    The general came to meet the king in the evening. He bowed and said, "Sire, the only sound that you will hear now in this village would be the cries of the scavenger animals."
    Repetition - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Palash Baran Pal
    Rabindranath Tagore | Story | May 2021
    The king said, "The forest is there, Ram is also there. But I heard, my child, that we cannot find a Sita. You can solve the problem if you wish."
    The Cornet - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Nandini Gupta
    Rabindranath Tagore | Poem | July 2020
    Two birds - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Palash Baran Pal
    Rabindranath Tagore | Poem | July 2020
    Uselessly - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Palash Baran Pal
    Rabindranath Tagore | Poem | July 2020
    Selections from Santiniketan: The One Commandment [Adesh - Santiniketan Vol I] - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Jyoti Prakash Datta, Edited by Nandan Datta
    Rabindranath Tagore | Essay : ধারাবাহিক | May 2020
    Religious texts have circulated lists of what should not be done by men and women, purporting such acts to have been specially prohibited by God. ...
    Selections from Santiniketan: Creation [Srishti - Santiniketan Vol I] - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Jyoti Prakash Datta, Edited by Nandan Datta
    Rabindranath Tagore | Essay : ধারাবাহিক | May 2020
    Selections from Santiniketan: Seeing the Truth [Satyake Dekha - Santiniketan Vol. I] - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Jyoti Prakash Datta, Edited by Nandan Datta
    Rabindranath Tagore | Essay : ধারাবাহিক | May 2020
    We meditate on the Creator in the midst of His creation. Let us meditate on the process of the universe being created by Him; the sun, the moon, the planets and the stars being expressions of Him; ...
    Twelve Novels by Rabindranath Tagore - Sunil Gangopadhyay translated from Bengali to English by Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra
    Rabindranath Tagore | Book-Review | May 2020
    What did the most popular and critically acclaimed contemporary Bengali novelist think of Tagore's novels, written about a hundred years ago? Find out from this essay by Sunil Gangopadhyay, written in his inimitable style on Tagore's 50th death anniversary.
    Tagore's Unfinished Experiment - Nandan Datta
    Rabindranath Tagore | Essay | September 2019
    Over a life of 80 years, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) wrote poems, plays, novels, short stories, essays, travelogues; composed songs by setting his own lyrics to tune and created musicals that combined song, dance, and drama...
    Selections from Santiniketan : Stregth at Work [shakti - Santiniketan Vol I] - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Jyoti Prakash Datta, Edited by Nandan Datta
    Rabindranath Tagore | Essay : ধারাবাহিক | August 2019
    Joy resides at the confluence where the streams of knowledge, love and strength come together.
    'Shasti': An Essay and Translation - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Carolyn B. Brown
    Rabindranath Tagore | Story | May 2016
    When Dukhiram Rui and Chhidam Rui picked up their choppers in the morning and headed out together to work as hired hands, the brothers’ wives were already at it, squabbling with each other. ..
    A Few Sentences on Translating Tagore’s “Shasti” (A Translator’s Punishment) - Carolyn B. Brown
    Rabindranath Tagore | Essay | May 2016
    Why have I translated the title of Rabindranath Tagore’s “শাস্তি” (Shasti) as “Sentence,” when everyone else translates it as “Punishment”? Well, to begin with ...
    Tagore’s play RAJA for Global Audience - Debashish Raychaudhuri
    Rabindranath Tagore | Essay | May 2016
    April is the month of theatre. April is the month of Shakespeare. This year the world celebrates the 400th death anniversary of the immortal bard of England who is synonymous with theatre in the English speaking world and even.. ..
    Santiniketan in the 1950s - Gallery of Pictures - Various, Vivien Cripps
    Rabindranath Tagore | Photo Gallery | March 2016
    Photographs of Nehoru, and of Sanitiniketan in the 1950s (courtesy Vivien Cripps, UK)
    Tagore’s Sense of Wonder in Indonesia: Rereading his Letters from a Traveller to Java - Amiya Dev
    Rabindranath Tagore | Essay | May 2015
    Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) A Biographical Sketch - Uma Dasgupta
    Rabindranath Tagore | Essay | February 2015
    Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861. He belonged to a remarkable family. They traced their connection as far back to the end of the seventeenth century with the area now occupied by Calcutta, India.
    Tagore the Pilgrim, Poet, and Philosopher - a Book Review - Narasingha P. Sil
    Rabindranath Tagore | Book-Review | May 2014
    The book under review, an anthology of twenty-two articles derived from a conference proceedings marking Rabindranath Tagore’s sesquicentennial birth anniversary in 2011, contains a variety of perspectives, ...
    The Fairy's Identity (পরীর পরিচয়) - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Sutapa Chaudhuri
    Rabindranath Tagore | Story | August 2013
    Now that the Prince has crossed twenty, marriage proposals started pouring in from home and abroad. The match-maker said, ‘The daughter of the King ...
    The Prince (রাজপুত্তুর) - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Sutapa Chaudhuri
    Rabindranath Tagore | Story | August 2013
    The Prince journeys beyond the borders of his own country, crossing the kingdoms of the seven kings, to a land where no king can claim any kingdoms...
    Shuorani’s Wish (সুয়োরানীর সাধ) - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Sutapa Chaudhuri
    Rabindranath Tagore | Story | August 2013
    It was as if the end was near for Shuorani. Life felt unbearably suffocating, nothing appealed to her anymore. All zest for living lost, Shuorani lay, as if, in her last gasp.
    Wanderlust: Travels of the Tagore Family - Debendranath Tagore, Jnanadanandini Devi, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore et.al. translated from Bengali to English by Somdatta Mandal
    Rabindranath Tagore | Essay | May 2013
    The following section offers vignettes of travel undertaken by five members of the Tagore household (known in common parlance as the Jorasanko Thakurbari). The places visited are often not that significant as are the purpose and experiences narrated in each of these pieces.
    Talking Between Disciplines: Could We Please Have A Better Conversation? - Ketaki Kushari Dyson
    Rabindranath Tagore | Book-Review | September 2012
    Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya is a historian with a long and distinguished career in academia. As far as I know, this is his latest book, clearly intended to commemorate the Tagore season...
    A Casa e O Mundo: Telo de Mascarenhas’s Translation of Ghare Baire - Sovon Sanyal
    Rabindranath Tagore | Essay | May 2012
    When Ghare Baire was written in serial form (between May 1915 to February 1916), Tagore had already gone through some serious deliberation over the questions about patriotism and nationalism.
    Conceptual development of Tagore's short stories - Rabin Pal
    Rabindranath Tagore | Essay | May 2012
    During the celebration of Tagore's seventieth Birthday, in 1931, a number of famous fiction writers (such as John Bojer, Theodore Dreiser, Andre Gide, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse, Selma Lagerlof, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Mann ...
    Rumbling Empires and Men Speaking to Storms: A Book Review by Ketaki Kushari Dyson - Ketaki Kushari Dyson
    Rabindranath Tagore | Book-Review | April 2012
    Last May, at a conference in London organized by the Tagore Centre UK to mark the 150th anniversary of Tagore’s birth, I heard a young scholar read an interesting paper on Tagore’s relationship with C. F. Andrews and Edward Thompson ...
    I/We/They - Sourin Bhattacharya
    Rabindranath Tagore | Essay | April 2012
    Society is a collective, composed of individual members. As entity the collective is different from its members. The society, therefore, cannot be identified with its members; nor the members, taken individually or collectively, can be identified with the society.
    Inside the World of Tagore's Music - Reba Som's "Rabindranath Tagore: The singer and his song" - Bhaswati Ghosh
    Rabindranath Tagore | Book-Review | August 2011
    Even though his musical creations form but a fraction of Tagore’s overall oeuvre, throughout his writing and creative life, music remained a much-evolving constant.
    New Doll - Rabindranath Tagore translated from Bengali to English by Bhaswati Ghosh
    Rabindranath Tagore | Story | May 2011
    There was a master craftsman who made dolls as playthings for little girls of the royal family. Every year, a doll fair was held in the palace courtyard. ...
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