Read Book Online: http://www.archive.org/stream/messageindiatoj00tagogoog#page/n2/mode/2up

Download pdf Book : http://ia600204.us.archive.org/20/items/messageindiatoj00tagogoog/messageindiatoj00tagogoog.pdf

Image Details : The great Indian Bengali poet, philosopher, spiritual leader, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. In 1916 he made an important visit to Japan, and then traveled to the United States. This is an 8 1/8" x 10 5/8" matte gelatin-silver print portrait taken in Japan by K. Machara, Yokahama, that is signed by Tagore in ink at the bottom of the print. The mount has Machara's stamp. This is a wonderful image that captures his spiritual character in tune with the Japanese architecture and landscape.

इस पुस्तक को उपलब्ध करवा कर आपने रवींद्रनाथ टैगोर के व्यक्तित्व और विचारों में दिलचस्पी रखने वाले लोगों पर वास्तव में बड़ा उपकार किया है | भाषण श्रृंखलाएँ आयोजित कराने वाली एक संस्था के निमंत्रण पर वर्ष 1916 में अमरीका जाना स्वीकार करने के क्रम में ही उन्हें जापान जाने का मौका मिला था, जहाँ उनका भरपूर स्वागत हुआ था | जापान और अमरीका की भाषण श्रृंखला के दौरान की उनकी दो पुस्तकें 'व्यक्तित्व' और 'राष्ट्रवाद' तो मिलती हैं लेकिन इस पुस्तक का जिक्र नहीं सुना गया है | यह पुस्तक रवींद्रनाथ टैगोर की बहुक्षेत्रव्यापी जटिल कारयित्री क्षमता को और प्रखर रूप में प्रकट करती है |

Tagore is wearing a long buttoned coat called 'chapkan' which he felt was an appropriate national dress as it had both 'hindu and muslim elements'.

Mita, that is so interesting.

Hi mam and kandy good to see you guys here....as a matter of fact Tagore was mighty disappointed with his japan trip.He felt "how little respect the people of powerful free nations have for those who are subject". maybe his Tota Kahini (parrot tales) a fierce satire which he wrote immediately after his travels was a kind of reaction against the 'sense of indignity and frustation' he had faced.

Mita Chakravorty : Now...you have got us curious ! Could you tell us more about this trip. : )

Tagore was accompanied by Mukul Dey a graphic artist, C F Andrews a clergy and Willy Pearson a journalist and a teacher.He was in Japan for almost 4 months where he stayed with Tomitaro of Hara family in his beautiful estate Sankeien.It is said that poet's houses, Udayan, Konark,Shymali, Udichi, Punashcha, and Chitrabhanu,(Tagore had a residential complex at santiniketan) were influenced by Japan's asthetic.At Udayan he made a Japanese garden complete with an artificial pond and an island and planted weeping willows.He was initially received with lots of fanfare as an universal poet but his stand on Japan's aggressive imperialistic tendencies in China made him extremely unpopular.Another agenda in this trip was to raise funds for Santiniketan and introduce the world to the concept of Viswabharati.... "The Santiniketan school must be made India's vital link with the rest of the world. The age of narrow nationalism is drawing to an end. The great union of countries and people which is being prepared for the future must have its first beginning on the Bolpur Plains"..... But he came back alone and empty handed.

R.s. Sunderesh ...Tagore had his fair share of critics including Graham Greene,even Yeats and Pound his early champions turned against him. ....as a proud alumnus of santineketan and Viswabharati I find Tagore's fearless reasoning in fredom remarkable.