TALKS IN CHINA

Category Rabindra Rachanavali
Format Paperback
Imprint Rupa
Price 50

ISBN: 9.79E+12
Pages: 162 pages
Date: 2002

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Talks in China (1925) has been put together from the lectures delivered by Tagore in 1924 in China where he went at the invitation of the Bejing Lecture Association. The poet gave inumerable talks, most of them given informally without any written notes.

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