{"product_id":"my-life-in-my-words","title":"My Life in My Words","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Rabindranath Tagore\u003cbr\u003eUma Das Gupta\/\u003cbr\u003eForeword\/Introductio: Uma Das Gupta\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin\/Viking\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2006\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 395\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0670999164\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not easy to know oneself, I have made different attempts to make sense of my life, The only thing I have been able to conclude about myself is that I am a poet, nothing else, no matter all the other things I may have done with my life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Renaissance man of modern India, Rabindranath Tagore put his country on the literary map of the world when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Though known primarily as a poet and writer, Tagore was also a painter, composer and philosopher, an educationist and rural reformer. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy Life in My Words is, quite literally, Tagore on Tagore. Uma Das Gupta draws upon the vast repertoire of Tagore’s writings—his autobiographical works, speeches, letters and poems—to create a vivid portrait of the life and times of one of India’s most influential cultural icons. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is a rare glimpse into the world of Rabindranath Tagore: his family of pioneering entrepreneurs, saints, poets and composers who shaped his world view; the personal tragedies that influenced some of his most eloquent verse; his ground-breaking work in education and social reform; his constant endeavour to bring about a synthesis of the East and the West and his humanitarian approach to politics; and his rise to the status of an international poet. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeticulously researched and sensitively edited, this unique autobiography provides an incomparable insight into the mind of a genius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRabindranath Tagore made no distinction between his art and his life. We cannot know and understand one without the other, and with this beautifully judged anthology Uma Das Gupta gives us intimate access to both. It tells a story of courage, sensitivity, generosity, imagination and energy, in which Bengalis and Indians can take special pride but which can make us all, in the end, proud to be human. Few of us can live as fully and nobly as Tagore, but reading his life in his own words can inspire us at least to try.\u003cbr\u003e-William Radice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is totally new idea to bring together Rabindranath’s autobiographical writing in chronological order. I wondered whether it works, Tagore being so poetically inexact about his own life. Now I am convinced. It has been a huge task to bring the mass of letters, autobiographical essays and poems into a sensitive order – Indeed a work of love!\u003cbr\u003e-Martin Kampehen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE: MY LIFE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy Family and the Changing Times\u003cbr\u003eMy Boyhood Days\u003cbr\u003eMy Father and Mother\u003cbr\u003eA New Chapter in My Life\u003cbr\u003eLeaving Home: Ahmedabad and England, 1878-79\u003cbr\u003eMy Education\u003cbr\u003eWriting Poetry\u003cbr\u003eRestless Years, 1883-90\u003cbr\u003eOn the Threshold of thirty\u003cbr\u003eMy Wife and Children\u003cbr\u003eLetters to My Children\u003cbr\u003eStarting my School at Santiniketan, 1901\u003cbr\u003eMy Experience of the Swadeshi Movement\u003cbr\u003eGitanjali and the Nobel Prize, 1913\u003cbr\u003eMy Travels in Japan and the USA, 1916-17\u003cbr\u003eRenouncing the Knighthood, and My Arguments against Non-Cooperation\u003cbr\u003eA World in One Nest: Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan\u003cbr\u003eVisva-Bharati Sriniketan - A Scheme for Village Reconstruction\u003cbr\u003eIn China, 1924\u003cbr\u003eAn Unexpected Stop in Argentina\u003cbr\u003eGandhiji and I\u003cbr\u003eIn Europe Again, 1926\u003cbr\u003eAn Uneasy though Versatile Period, 1927-31\u003cbr\u003eMore Travel, More Poetry, More Drama\u003cbr\u003eCrisis and Hope: My Last Years, 1937-41\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART TWO: MY THOUGHTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Myself\u003cbr\u003eOn Religion\u003cbr\u003eOn Nature\u003cbr\u003eOn My Country\u003cbr\u003eOn British Rule in India\u003cbr\u003eTo My Friends\u003cbr\u003eFrom My Poems and Songs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINDEX\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Rabindranath Tagore \/ Penguin\/Viking \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153505907056,"sku":"19497","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/19497.jpg?v=1793910579","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/my-life-in-my-words","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}