Anita Desai and Andrew Robinson — The Modern Resonance of Rabindranath Tagore
On Being with Krista Tippett
English - August 06, 2014 12:00 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsRelationships Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality Spirituality arts spirituality society on being krista tippett sociology culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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He bestowed the title “Mahatma” on Gandhi. He debated the deepest nature of reality with Einstein. He was championed by Yeats and Pound to become the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Rabindranath Tagore was a polymath — a writer and a painter, a philosopher and a musician, and a social innovator — but much of his poetry and prose is virtually untranslatable (or inaccessibly translated) for modern minds. We pull back the “dusty veils” that have hidden his memory from history.