Patron
ShriVijaynarayan R.Pandit
Dear
Friends
The Editorial Team
would like to thank you all for your co-operation in contributing to our First
ISBN Book “Research Canvas”. Our next project of ISBN Book Publication is on
the theme
Insights
into The Works of Rabindranath Thakur/Tagore
Is Rabindranath Thakur relevant today?
Or more importantly, is Rabindranath as great as he is cracked up to be? This
subversive question has been asked by plenty of people over the years- by
westerners who became disillusioned with his self-translations and by
non-Bengali Indians tired of Bengali-obsession with him. There is a just-felt
need to re-assess and situate Rabindranath Thakur in the post-modern parlance
and for a generation with very little concern about finer values of life.
Rabindranath Thakur was a poet, a
novelist, a writer of some of the best short stories, a composer of songs, a
painter, an educationist, a major participant in public affairs and a moulder
of independent India’s intellectual inheritance.Nirad C Chaudhuriadmitted that
he was among the twenty greatest writers of all time. There was hardly any
field that was left untouched by Thakur. His linguistic mastery was
extra-ordinary. Every sentence flowing from his pen with a seemingly virtuosity
reminds one of the music of J S Bach. As a composer of songs, Satyajit Ray felt
that he was the equal of Schubert. Honoured with the title ‘Gurudev”, he was
not the sort of Guru who supplies us with dogma or ready-made answers.
He said many times that he was neither
a world-denier nor a monist: he was a dualist who found spiritual reality in
the ‘khela’ of the human and the divine. When he defined art as ‘the response
of man’s creative soul to the call of the real’, he meant the real of the here
and now, the imperfect real of history and society and human relationships, but
also a real that was shot through the glimpses of perfection. In one of his
greatest songs he knew, ‘there is sorrow, there is death, there is the fire of
separation. Yet peace joy and eternity are awake’. Everything that defined him
stemmed from this awareness: his compassion, his social activism, his concern
for the natural environment, his rapport with women and children-all the things
that make him so relevant today.
Author of Gitanjali and its
"profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the
first non-European to win the Nobel
Prize in Literature in 1913. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays dealt
with topics political and personal. Gitanjali
(Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and
his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their
lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His
compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana GanaMana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.
Sub-themes of the proposed project
1.
Tagore on himself
2.
Tagore and Kalidasa
3.
Tagore and the Mahatma at Shantiniketan
4.
Tagore as an educationist
5.
Tagore the Nobel Lauret
6.
Tagore the Humanist
7.
Tagore and RabindraSangeet
8.
Tagore’s contribution to Indian Literature
9.
Early life of Tagore
10.
Family of Tagore
11.
Education of Tagore
12.
Inspirations of Tagore
13.
Young Tagore
14.
Struggles of Tagore
15.
Poetry of Tagore
16.
Manuscripts of
Rabindranath Tagore.
17.
Re-reading of
Manuscripts in present day context.
18.
Subaltern
consciousness in Tagore’s works.
19.
Relevance of
Rabindranath Tagore in the Twenty First Century
20.
Writings on Tagore’s
Translations
21.
Tagore and
Contemporary society
22.
Tagore and Bankim
Chandra: a Comparison
23.
Tagore in Translation
24.
Rabindranath’s
‘translations’ of his own works from Bangla into English.
25.
Rabindranath’s
translation of others’ works
26.
Rabindranath and
theory of translation
27.
Rabindranath’s
writings translated into foreign/western languages
28.
Rabindranath’s
writings translated into other Indian languages
29.
Problems of
translating Rabindranath
30.
Indian-ness in
Rabindranath Tagore’s works – Indian myth, ethos and Indian Culture.
31.
Symbolism in
Rabindranath Tagore’s works.
32.
Ecology in the works
of Rabindranath Tagore.
33.
Theme of Patriotism,
Nationalism and Spiritualism in Tagore’s works.
34.
Impact of Rabindranath
Tagore on Literature of East and West.
35.
Tagore’s Literary
Reflections: film and culture.
36.
Tagore’s Literature
and Revolution.
37.
Gandhi and Tagore: A Unique
relationship
38.
Gandhi’s village
Swaraj& Tagore’s SwadeshiSamaj
39.
Gandhi and Tagore on
civilization
40.
Gandhi, Tagore and the
Non-cooperation movement
41.
Gandhi, Tagore and
Charkha
42.
Views of Gandhi and
Tagore on Communalism
43.
Gandhi, Tagore and
untouchability
44.
Tagore and Bengali sub-nationalism
45.
Tagore’s paintings :
an evaluation
46.
Tagore’s Economic
views
47.
Tagore and human rights
48.
Tagore and Religion
49.
Tagore and Media
50.
Tagore in The non-Bengali Perceptions
51.
Tagore’s foreign travels (Travelogues)
52.
Tagore on Soviet Union
53.
Tagore on Japan
54.
Tagore and the women in his life
55.
Tagore and WB Yeats
56.
Tagore and Internationalism
57.
Tagore and the world wars
58.
Tagore on the Brahmo Movement
59.
Tagore and Swami Vivekanand
60.
Tagore and Raja Ram mohan Roy
61.
Tagore and the Divine
62.
Tagore and C F Andrews
63.
Tagore and Indira Gandhi
64.
Tagore and Nehru
65.
Tagore, the intellectual
66.
Tagore, the Common man
67.
Legacy of Tagore
68.
Traditional values in Tagore’s works
69.
Constructing Bengali Culture without Tagore
70.
Tagore and the radical Left politics of Bengal
71.
Timeless Tagore
72.
Tagore as a Rural Reconstructionist
73.
The sage of Santiniketan
74.
Tagore and Deshnayaka Subhas Bose
75.
Tagore and sri Narayan Guru
76.
Tagore: The unique Landlord
77.
Poet of the Padma: Tagore’s links with East Bengal
78.
Tagore: The environmentalist
79.
Tagore: The man Of Science
80.
Tagore and Einstein
81.
Tagore and J C Bose
82.
Tagore’s Last Days
83.
Tagore and social Psychology
84.
Tagore and Indian Philosophy
85.
Tagore and Hindi Literature
86.
Tagore and Indian Freedom Fight
87.
Tagore and politics
88.
Tagore as a Guru
_____________________________________________________________________________________
·
Last date
for submission of the Article is 30th December 2013.
·
Maximum
limit of the word will be 2000.
·
Article
must be in English or in Hindi
We expect your cooperation and support for this Academic
cherry picking process.
Sincerely
Dr.Manishkumarc.Mishra
Associate
Indian
Institute of Advanced Study &
In
charge-Department of Hindi
K.M.Agrawalcollege,kalyan
Mo-08080303132
