MAHATMAJI AND THE DEPRESSED HUMANITY

Category Rabindra Rachanavali
Format Paperback
Imprint Rupa
Price 95

ISBN: 9.79E+12
Pages: 89 pages
Date: 2002

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Mahatmaji and the Depressed Humanity (1932) is an assortment of articles occasioned by Mahatma Gandhi’s fast in protest against the Puna pact. East and West (1935) is an exchange of letters between Gilbert Murray (1866-1957) and Tagore.

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