STRAY BIRDS:RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Category Rabindra Rachanavali
Format Paperback
Imprint Rupa
Price 50

ISBN: 9.79E+12
Pages: 88 pages
Date: 2002

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Stray Birds consists of epigrams and short verses and are mostly translation of the epigrammatic verses of Kanika (Fragments) and Lekhan (Autographs in verse). The brevity, economy and intensity of these verses are striking and the combination of wit and wisdom has a magical lilt

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

One of India’s most cherished renaissance figures, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) put India on the literary map of the world when his Gitanjali was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Myriad-minded, he was a poet, short story writer, novelist, dramatist, essayist, painter and composer of songs. His worldwide acclaim as a social, political, religious and aesthetic thinker, innovator in education and a champion of the ‘One World’ idea makes him a living presence