রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর: একশত বছরের বৈশ্বিক-অভ্যর্থনা | Rabindranath Tagore: One Hundred Years Globe Reception

Abstract

The great Indian Bengali author Rabindranath Tagore attained global fame about one hundred years ago on being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first non-European writer to have this honor. Soon after it he became an international figure. His writings got to be translated in almost all the prominent languages around the globe. He started touring the world with his humanistic philosophy and ultimately it turned into celebrity lecture tours. In his each visit he encountered with leading writers, intellectuals and statesmen of that particular land and impressed them with his amicable and refined personality. Considering oneself as a world citizen, Rabindranath always aimed at bringing the 'East' and the 'West' together for the betterment of the world. Thereupon, he was considered, later on, not only the voice of India, but the voice of emerging World. This essay presents a review of the book Rabindranath Tagore: One Hundred Years of Global Reception, edited by jointly Martin Kampchen and Imre Bangha with Editorial adviser Uma Das Gupta. In this essay, primarily an attempt is made to introduce the nature of book to the reader who yet to read it or collect it. This book is an anthology on the acceptance Tagore made throughout the world in the last hundred years. There are 35 essays, arranged by region or language group. Those remind us how Rabindranath has been received from 1913 until today. They inform us about the nature and history of Tagore's translations into other languages, the impact of his visits and lectures, his meetings with the notable intellectuals, cultural movements responded to him differently and controversies.