![]() ![]() She points out that Tagore’s philosophical perspective on Death is not riddled with any confusion about the ‘transference’ of “texts from one culture to another” because Death is universal. ![]() Dasgupta's translation of the lyrics included in the Swadesh category of the Geetbitan had already established her fondness for Tagore.ĭasgupta is lucid in translating even the innermost feelings of grief, emptiness and emotional inner pain felt by Tagore. Her published books include Tagore: At Home in the World (coeditor, SAGE 2013), Radical Rabindranath: Nation, Family and Gender in Tagore’s Fiction and Films (co-author, Orient Blackswan, 2013), Swades Tagore’s Patriotic Songs (translation, Visva Bharati Publication Division, 2013), Towards Tagore A collection of Essays (Edited with introduction - Visva Bharati Publications, 2014), and many others. of English and former Dean, Faculty of Arts, Calcutta University is a poet, critic and translator,has lectured, taught and read her poems and short stories in India, Europe, USA and Australia. Sanjukta Dasgupta, former Professor and former Head, Dept. Madhurilata did not bear any children and Renuka was too small and ill to conceive apart from the fact that she hardly spent any time with her husband. Grief placed milestones in the journey of Tagore’s life. Since Kadambari Devi’s death, between 19, Tagore had to face multiple deaths of his closest ones – Mrinalini Devi, daughter Renuka, father Debendranath Tagore, the youngest son, Samindranath, and then Bela or Madhurilata in 1918.Īfter Madhurilata passed away on 13th May, 1918, Tagore wrote another bunch of poems called Palataka (1918) which begins with his personal grief over losing his daughter and also a son Samindranath, to cholera and daughter Renuka who died after chronic ailments. Kadambari committed suicide and it took Tagore a long time to move on after the shock of her death. He lost his close friend and collaborator Kadambari, married to his brother Jyotindranath Tagore soon after he got married to Mrinalini. In 1876, at the age of fourteen, Tagore for the first time experienced the finality of death when his mother died. ![]() She passed away in 1902 and Tagore perhaps tried to cope with her loss with a bunch of poems in her memory together titled Smaran (Memoriam). ![]() He married his wife Mrinalini when she was nine years and nine months old and he was around 12 years older than she was. He did not give his children formal education in schools but educated them at home through teachers who taught them basic subjects like Sanskrit, English and Bengali other than crafts with stress on Sanskrit. One interesting contradiction is that Tagore paid dowry for the marriages of all his three daughters Madhurilata, Renuka and Atashilata and got them married much before they had reached adolescence. These come through his perceptions and attitudes towards women, their problems and their resolutions through the female characters that mark his writings. The many facets of his personality were complementary and contradictory at the same time. He internalized all this and then created his own genre of poetry, prose, fiction, drama, song and music. Yet, he also drew generously from English poetry to Bengali nursery rhyme, from the most elaborate classical symphony to the simplest folk tune. He drew deeply from the native and grand mysticism of the Upanishads, Kalidasa and the emotional music of the Vaishnava poets. Over time, he evolved into a multi-faceted creative genius deeply rooted in the soil of his land. In stature, stride and sweep Rabindranath Tagore is an all-round creative genius the likes of which is seldom encountered in the contemporary world of literature, aesthetics, philosophy and social statement. ![]()
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