[ALBSA-Info] Indian Literature

[Florian Dashi]

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) 

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Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7 May 1861 in Calcutta. He was India's greatest modern poet and the most creative genius of the Indian Renaissance. Besides poetry, Tagore wrote songs (both the words and the melodies), short stories, novels, plays (in both prose and verse), essays on a wide range of topics including literary criticism, polemical writing, travelogues, memoirs and books for children. Apart from a few books containing lectures given abroad and personal letters to friends who did not read Bengali, the bulk of his voluminous literary output is in Bengali. Gitanjali(1912), Tagore's own transalation of the poetic prose from the Bengali Gitanjali(1910) won him the Nobel prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore died on 7 August 1941 in the family house in Calcutta where he was born. 
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On the Nature of Love
>From Chaitali (1896) 
The night is black and the forest has no end;
a million people thread it in a million ways.
We have trysts to keep in the darkness, but where
or with whom- of that we are unaware.
But we have this faith- that a lifetime's bliss
will appear any minute, with a smile upon its lips.
Scents, touches, sounds, snatches of songs
brush us, pass us, give us delightful shocks.
Then peradventure there's a flash of lightning:
whomever I see that instant I fall in love with.
I call that person and cry: `This life is blest!
For your sake such miles have I traversed!'
All those others who come close and moved off
in the darkness- I dont know if they exist or not.



Translated from Bengali by Ketaki Kushari Dyson


"Tantra Yoga is the saving wisdom. 
It is the marvellous boat which takes man safely to the other shore 
of fearlessness, immortality, freedom, and perfection."      
                                                                                                            


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