Rabindranath Tagore enjoys extensive popularity in many Asian countries outside his native Bengal and India, and his rich legacy as a poet and proponent of global dialogue and confluence of cultures ...

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If there is one thing that flows like blood through the veins of these stories, it is helplessness. Their power is in the endurance and strength that lies after it. Tagore’s direct narrative prose is ...

With every page turn, Aruna Chakravarti’s book Daughters of Jorasanko recreates the era between 1859 and 1902, engaging us with stories of Jnanadanandini, the wife of Rabindranath Tagore’s elder ...

There isn’t a writer in any part of the world who is worshiped as fiercely by his own people as Rabindranath Tagore is by the Bengalis. Some may argue that Robert Burns comes close in Scotland, but ...

Detective Noore Chhafa’s arrival in Sundarpur sets the stage for a thriller filled with disappearances, secrets, and a restaurant with an unusual name. The Bengali novel, Tagore Never Ate Here (Harper ...

It is almost impossible to put Rabindranath Tagore aside and celebrate Pohela Baishakh. The most iconic song, “Esho He Baishakh”—the song every Pohela Baishakh programme starts with—was written by him ...

On the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore’s birthday today (May 9, 2025), celebrated according to the Bengali calendar, Kolkata’s oldest existing bookshop, Dasgupta & Co., took the opportunity to pay ...

In contrast to the frequent commemoration of Rabindranath Tagore’s tryst with Shillong, the poet’s equally significant relationship with another northeastern state, Tripura, has seldom captured the ...