‘Song of India: What our national anthem says about us’ by Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Historian and author Rudrangshu Mukherjee reveals some surprising details embedded in the ‘song of India’
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Kabuliwala’ to get a contemporary remake
One of Rabindranath Tagore’s most popular short stories, Kabuliwala, will be told once again in film. In this new remake, Mithun Chakravarthy will reportedly play the titular role of Rehemat, an itinerant merchant from Kabul, Afghanistan, who strikes an unlikely friendship with a 5-year-old girl during his yearly visits to Kolkata. Though it is fiction,… Read more »
Now reading: our favorite Tagore
Something is daunted when one attempts to remember the bequests of India’s early multi-hyphenate on his death anniversary. A good profile should be a seamless whole of the inner and outer life of the poet, Rabindranath Tagore had said, commenting on Tennyson’s biography by his son, which he admonished for being full of trivialities. But… Read more »