Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel winning centenary

Most people are unaware that Rabindranath Tagore was at the lowest point of his personal life in 1913. He was 52 and cut off from society. His wife and two of his three children had died over the previous decade — one more was to follow in 1918. Nirad C. Chaudhuri writes that his alienation began with a sense of being alone. He hardly had a readership with which there could...

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