ABOUT THIS BOOK
Poems from Puravi is a collection of seven poems. The translator is Kshitis Roy, former curator of the Tagore Museum at Santiniketan and editor of Viswa-Bharati Quarterly for many years.
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