MATRIX OF GANDHI AND TAGORE

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INDIRA GANDHI Indira Gandhi: My This book offers an overview of the intricacies
Truth and problems of being a leader of a country
such as India, with all its history and cultural
background, all the while trying to encourage a
healthy growth within it, maintain its self-
respect and the friendship of other countries,
as well as peace among a variety of ethnic,
religious, and linguistic groups . All in all, an
inspiring account of India following its
independence in 1947, told by an amazingly
driven, intelligent, wise, and enduring woman.

INDIRA GANDHI Freedom's Released in June 1992, this is a compilation of

Daughter Vol. I : letters between Jawaharial Nehru and his
Letters Between daughter Indira Gandhi, from the time she was
Indira Gandhi and seven until 1940. The editor of this volume is
Jawaharlal Nehru the wife of Rajiv Gandhi, the present prime
minister of India, and was the daughter-in-law
of Indira Gandhi. They begin with his
postcards to his baby daughter and her first
attempts to write back at the age of six . The
letters also cover her travels to Europe and
time at Oxford university, while his include
advice on politics, and descriptions of his time
in prison.

RABINDRANATH Valmiki Pratibha English Translation:

TAGORE The Genius of Valmiki

This is an opera based on the legend

of Ratnakara the Thug who later became
Sage Valmiki and composed Ramayana,
a Hindu epic.

Composed in 1881, the opera was first

 performed at the Jorasanko Thakur Bari on 26
February 1881. Tagore himself played the role
of Valmiki. It was staged in front of some
eminent literary personalities of contemporary
Bengal. The first edition of the opera was also
published this time. The second and final
edition was published on 20 February 1886.

The music of this opera was a "fusion of

classical, folk and European strains.” The story
narrates how Ratnakara, a robber chief turns
into a great poet by the grace of Saraswati, the
goddess of wisdom.

RABINDRANATH Bhanusimha English Translation:

TAGORE Thakurer Padabali The Songs of Bhanushingho Thakur

This is a collection of Vaishnava lyrics

composed in Brajabuli. It was published in
1884. These lyrics, which were earlier brought
out in several issues of Bharati magazine, were
first anthologized in 1884. Later, Tagore
described composing these songs in his
reminiscences Jiban Smriti. Rabindranath
Tagore wrote his first substantial poems titled
Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali
in Brajabuliunder the pseudonym "Sun Lion"
at age sixteen.

The anthology has 22 songs out of which only

nine exists in Swarabitan, collection of
notations of Tagore’s music.

RABINDRANATH Kabuliwallah English Translation:

TAGORE The Fruit seller

Kabuliwala is a Bengali short story written

 by Rabindranath Tagore in 1892. The story is
of a Pashtun merchant from Kabul, who comes
to Calcutta (present day Kolkata), India each
year for selling dry-fruits and while living in
India he becomes friends with a five-year-old
girl Mini from a middle-class aristocratic
family.

The main theme of this story is filial love-the

deep love that fathers have for their children .
In the story we encounter three examples of
filial love-the author and his daughter Mini,
the Kabuliwala and his daughter in
Afghanistan, the Kabuliwala and Mini.

RABINDRANATH Kshudhita English Translation:

TAGORE Pashaan The Hunger of Stones

Written in 1895, the story is about a tax

collector, Srijut, who is sent to a small town
and stays at a former palace which is believed
to be haunted. Every night he becomes more
consumed by the spirits of the inhabitants of
the palace from the Mughal times and a
beautiful woman.
Tagore was inspired to write this story after he
had stayed in Shah Jahan's Moti Shahi
Mahal palace Shahibaug, Ahmedabad, Gujarat,
situated near the Sabarmati River. This was
where Tagore's elder
brother Satyendranath was serving as a judge
at the time.

RABINDRANATH Chokher Bali English Translation: A Speck in the Eye

TAGORE
Chokher Bali is a 1903 Bengali novel
by Rabindranath Tagore that depicts the life of
the central character, Binodini, and her
relationships with three individuals. It explores
the extramarital affair between Binodini, a
young widow, and Mahendra, one of the three
other main characters, the complicated
friendship with Asha, his girl-wife, and her
mutually conflicting feelings with Behari,
Mahendra's adopted brother. The content also
highlighted issues of women literacy, child
marriage, gendered power hierarchy within the
family and the fates of three widows.