Presenting Tagore's heritage in Canada, Joseph T. O'Connell, Lectureship Foundation, Rabindranath Tagore Lectureship Foundation, 1989, 0969399804, 9780969399803, 142 pages. .

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Homage to Qazi Nazrul Islam on his seventy-fourth birthday, 24th May 1973 , Syed Ali Ashraf, 1973, , 45 pages. .

Rabindranath through western eyes , Alex Aronson, 1943, , 158 pages. .

Sinners and saints , Shyam Ratna Gupta, Jai Shankar Prasad, 1977, , 122 pages. .

Phases of Tagore's poetry , Srikumar Banerjee, 1973, Biography & Autobiography, 49 pages. .

Rabindranath Tagore's Visit to Canada , , , , . .

Power in print popular publishing and the politics of language and culture in a colonial society, 1778-1905, AninditДЃ Ghosh, 2006, History, 348 pages. Includes bibliographical references (p. [308]-338) and index -- With reference to printing and publishing in Bengal in the time-period; a study..

Pedagogy of the Oppressed 30th Anniversary Edition, Paulo Freire, Sep 1, 2000, Education, 183 pages. "(This book) meets the single criterion of a 'classic': it has outlived its own time and its author's. For any teacher who links education to social change, this is required ....

India After Gandhi The History of the World's Largest Democracy, Ramachandra Guha, 2008, India, 300 pages. Told in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of Indias wild ride since independence is a riveting one. Guha explores the dramatic protests and conflicts that have shaped modern ....

Western influence in , , 1966, History, 341 pages. .

Gitanjali , Rabindranath Tagore, May 1, 2007, Art, 68 pages. is an important collection of prose by Rabindranath Tagore, being a key Indian poet, author and of course Nobel Peace Prize winner. Individuals who are intestered in ....

India, economic development and social opportunity , Jean DrГЕze, AmartyГЎ Sen, 1998, Business & Economics, 292 pages. India's success in reducing endemic deprivation since Independence has been quite limited. Recent diagnoses of this failure of policy have concentrated on the counterproductive ....

The Hungry Stones & Other Stories , Rabindranath Tagore, Feb 1, 2008, Fiction, 132 pages. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose ....

Some aspects of the poetry of Tagore , Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta, 1970, Biography & Autobiography, 56 pages. .

Santiniketan the making of a contextual modernism, Rabindranath Tagore, National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi, India), 1997, Biography & Autobiography, 250 pages. Reproduction of paintings exhibited as part of the celebration of 50th anniversary of India's independence. The exhibition features the works of Rabindranath Tagore, Nandalal ....

Universality in Tagore souvenir of a symposium on Rabindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Nitika/Don Bosco (Organization : Calcutta, India), 1991, Biography & Autobiography, 184 pages. .

We are a collective of Tagore enthusiasts based in Toronto. During 2010-11, we worked as the Tagore Anniversary Celebrations Committee Toronto (TACCT) to create and present public events to commemorate Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary. In 2013, we are working again to celebrate the centenary of Tagore’s Nobel award. The core members of our collective are:

Manasi Adhikari, Founding-Director, Gitanjali School of Music: Manasi Adhikari was born, raised and educated in Santinekatan, where Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore founded the Viswa Bharati University. Since her childhood, she learned under the tutelage of great exponents in this field. Manasi Adhikari was the recipient of a gold medal in bachelor of Music degree from Calcutta University. She also received the prestigious All India President’s Scholarship for two years from the Government of India for post graduate work in music. Manasi was a regular artist of All India Radio and the HMV Recording Company. As a Scholarship holder, she completed the M.Ed. degree and Special Education Specialist qualification from the University of Manitoba and served in different school boards in Canada for 35 years. Manasi founded the Geetanjali Music School in Toronto and Waterloo in 1989. Over the years, she has performed and continues to perform across Canada and the United States.

Dipak Adhikari, Gitanjali School of Music: Dipak Ranjan Adhikari is a Jute Technologist from India and did his accounting from Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada. In Manitoba, he worked as General Manager for Mars Leisure Products, oe of the largest recreational vehicle companies in Western Canada. Since 1987 to his retirement, he worked for Siemens Canada as a corporate controller in manufacturing divisions in Ontario. Dipak served in different community organizations in various capacities. He was a standing member of the Lions Club, Manitoba chapter and was actively involved in many charitable community projects. Dipak brought in many communities together as a chairperson of the Canada Day Celebration Committee for three years in the city of Brandon, Manitoba. He also served as president of Indo Canadian Friendship Association and the Prairie Film Club for several years. Dipak played a key role in reviving the Calcutta branch of TCF (Toronto Calcutta Foundation) and in 2003, he founded and chaired the Toronto Sanskriti Sanstha. Since 1989, Dipak has been the president of Geetanjali Music and Dance Group of Ontario.

Professor Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, York University: Ananya’s teaching and research focus primarily on the theme of human development, broadly defined. She is also the Founding-Director of the International Secretariat for Human Development (ISHD) at York University.  ISHD’s main objective is to stimulate new forms of knowledge for human development where disciplinary barriers are dissolved, the divide between scholar and practitioner is overcome, and academic outcomes of research are accompanied by concrete social outcomes. Under her direction, ISHD has worked with major international organizations like the UNDP, ILO, UNOPS as well as community organizations from Latin America and India. Her most recent book Human Development and Social Power: Perspectives from South Asia, (Routledge, London and New York 2008; distributed by Cambridge University Press in South Asia) is inspired by Tagore’s vision of social equality and human dignity. She also appears frequently in the media. Since 2010, she has been writing and presenting widely on Tagore in print and electronic media. Joseph T. O’Connell, Professor Emeritus, Study of Religion, University of Toronto and Honorary Professor of World Religions and Culture, University of Dhaka: Professor O’Connell teaches about religious traditions in South Asia and does research on religion and society in the Bengal region of India and Bangladesh. He is joint editor (with R. Thakkar, N. Chaki and P.K. Basu) of Presenting Tagore’s Heritage in Canada (Toronto: Rabindranath Tagore Lectureship Foundation, 1989) and (with K. O’Connell) of Rabindranath Tagore: Reclaiming a Cultural Icon (Kolkata:Visva-Bharati,2009). He expects to speak on “Tracing Vaisnava Strains in Tagore― at the London Tagore Society’s 150th Birth Anniversary Celebration of Rabindranath.

Kathleen M. O’Connell, Lecturer, University of Toronto: Kathleen has an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University (Kolkata, 1965), and Ph.D. in Indian Cultural History (Toronto, 1995). She teaches courses on Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray at New College, University of Toronto. Her publications include: Rabindranath Tagore: The Poet as Educator (Calcutta:Visva-Bharati, 2002); Bravo Professor Shonku. Translation (Bengali to English) of stories by Satyajit Ray (New Delhi: Rupa & Co., 1985); Rabindranath Tagore: Facets of a Cultural Icon Issue, special issue of University of Toronto Quarterly (edited jointly with Joseph O’Connell), Vol. 77, No. 4, Fall 200

Dipak Mazumdar, Professor, University of Toronto: Dipak Mazumdar is an academic who has had a long career in teaching at several Universities, including the LSE in London and U of T. He spent a number years in the research Department of the World Bank, and has published widely in Development and Labour Economics. He has a life long inertest in the Arts and specially in Poetry. He has a volume of translations of Tagore’s late poems from Bengali into English (A Poet`s Death, Rupa, 2004) and of selected poems of Baudelaire from French into Bengali (Nandimukh, Kolkata, 2nd Edition, 2004).

Pauline Mazumdar, Professor Emeritus, History of Medicine, University of Toronto: Pauline earned her M.B.,B.S., (London, 1958), M.Tech.,Immunology (Brunel, 1974) and Ph.D. in the History of Medicine (Johns Hopkins, 1976). She is the author of books and papers on the history of immunology, eugenics and human genetics, and on the history of standardisation. She is a Member of the American Association for the History of Medicine, the European Academy for Standardisation and the Riverdale Farm Advisory Council, City of Toronto. Her hobbies include painting, photography and history of art.

Uttam Chakrabarti, Director, Toronto-Calcutta Foundation: Uttam Chakrabarti is one of the founding members of The Toronto-Calcutta Foundation (TCF), a registered charity both in Canada and India. He has been a member of the International Board since 1988 and holding various positions and is currently Director of the Foundation. With the help of many he has made TCF a recognizable name in Canada. He also served on the Advisory Board for the Faculty of Business Management Administration, University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus. During his tenure Mr. Chakrabarti contributed his time and energy to the Co-Op programs of Business Management by hiring and coaching students. For the past two years he has been a member of the Funding Committee for the Toronto United Way. Along with other members Mr. Chakrabarti evaluates the funding requests from various NGOs for its effectiveness and the delivery of worthwhile programs. Recently he was part of the core group for launching the Toronto Chapter of the Global Organization of people of Indian Origin (GOPIO).

Tagore (1861-1941) is an iconic social thinker who lived and worked in India and Bangladesh. While the West largely knows him as a ‘mystic and a poet’, Tagore excelled in every sphere of the arts and literature (he authored and composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh). All his work was inspired by the values of diversity, inclusion, democracy and justice. This site is an effort to celebrate Tagore’s social vision and its relevance today.

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Dr Imre Bangha is a Lecturer in Hindi at the University of Oxford. He studied Ideology in Budapest and carried out his doctoral research in Hindi at Santiniketan, India. His publications include Hungarian translations from various South Asian languages as well as Saneh ko marag, a book in Hindi on Anandghan (Ghan Anand), Hungry Tiger: Encounter between India and Central Europe: The Case of Hungarian and Bengali Literary Cultures and The First Published Anthology of Hindi Poets: Thomas Duer Broughton's Selections from the Popular Poetry of the Hindus - 1814. At present he is working on a critical edition of early Hindi works such as the Kavitavali of Tulsidas as well as on the reception of Tagore in Hungary.

Dr Michael Collins is Lecturer in Twentieth Century British History at UCL. His research is geared towards the history of political, social, cultural and economic thinking in Britain over the last 100 years. The themes shaping his research questions include the British experience of the empire; identity politics, nationalism and historical memory in Britain; and the historical and theoretical links between culture, community, political economy and ideas of social justice. He was awarded a DPhil for a study of 'Rabindranath Tagore and the West, 1912-1941' by the University of Oxford in 2009. His book entitled Empire, Nationalism and Inter-Cultural Dialogue: Rabindranath Tagore's Writings On History, Politics and Society is due out with Routledge in the summer of 2011.

Krishna Dutta was born in Calcutta and holds degrees from University College London and the University of Calcutta. She is a writer, translator and reviewer. Her published work includes Rabindranath Tagore, The Myriad-minded Man with Andrew Robinson (Bloomsbury), Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore (CUP) and Rabindranath Tagore: An Anthology (Picador). She also reviews books for The Independent, The Times Higher Education supplement and The Tablet. Her book Calcutta: A Cultural & Literary History was selected Book of the Week in The Sunday Times.

Born in Kolkata, Dr Ketaki Kushari Dyson studied English literature at Calcutta and Oxford Universities and obtained her D.Phil. from Oxford University. A poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, translator and critic, Dr Dyson writes in both Bengali and English. She has received several literary prizes and accolades. Some of her important books on the subject of Tagore are: Rabindranath O Victoria Ocampor Sandhane (Bengali); In Your Blossoming Flower Garden: Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Ocampo (English); I won’t let you go: Selected poems of Rabindranath Tagore (English); and Ronger Rabindranath (Bengali), which have all been highly appreciated by Tagore scholars and readers everywhere.

Dr Martin Kampchen was born in 1948 in Boppard, Germany. He studied in the USA, Vienna and Paris, his subjects being German Literature, Theatre and French, obtaining his PhD in Vienna. Since 1982 he has been working in India, first as a lecturer in German in Kolkata, then as a student in Madras and Santiniketan, where he studied Comparative Religion. He obtained a further PhD from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. He has translated Rabindranath Tagore's poetry from Bengali to German. He wrote Tagore's biography in German and, in addition, has researched Tagore's connections with Germany.

Liesbeth Meyer was born in 1948 in The Hague where she resides still. She worked for many years as Secretary at the Advisory Council of Science- and Technology Policy and has been retired since 2008. She is a member of Theosophical Society Point Loma Covinna. She has published books on Tagore and recently translated "Letters to a Friend" and "Crescent Moon" in Dutch. Dr Joseph T O'Connell is Professor in the Study of Religion, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto, Canada, and Visiting Professor of World Religions in the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. His doctorate from Harvard is in the Comparative Study of the Major World Religions. His primary area of scholarship is the history of religion and society in the Bengal region with special concentration on the Caitanya Vaisnava tradition and certain sectors of the Muslim tradition in Bengal. He jointly edited (with Kathleen M. O'Connell) "Rabindranath Tagore: Reclaiming a Cultural Icon" (Kolkata: Visva-Bharati, 2009) and (with R. Thakkar, N. Chaki and P.K. Basu) "Presenting Tagore's Heritage in Canada" (Toronto: Rabindranath Tagore Lectureship Foundation, 1988).

Dr William Radice, born in 1951, has degrees from the University of Oxford and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, where he is now Senior Lecturer in Bengali. He has written and edited over thirty books, and is particularly well known for his translations which include: Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Poems (London: Penguin Classics, 2005), Selected Short Stories (London: Penguin Classics, 2005) and Particles, Jottings, Sparks: The Collected Brief Poems (London: Angel, 2001) and (London: The Tagore Centre UK, 1996). His diverse activities have included opera - notably the libretto for Param Vir's widely performed chamber opera, Snatched by the Gods - broadcasting and journalism.

Rohini Raychaudhuri is the youngest contributor to the seminar. At twenty, she is already considered one of the best singers of Rabindrasangeet to stem from her generation. A versatile singer of several genres, she is trained by her father Debashish. Together, they make the only 'father daughter duo' in the world of Rabindrasangeet.

Dr Elzbieta Walter obtained her PhD from the Department of South Asian Studies, Oriental Faculty, University of Warsaw. She has an interest in Bengali language and is the author of the first Bengali grammar in Polish. She is an author of several translations from Bengali into Polish such as Folk Tales of Bengal, Pather Panchali, Na hanyate, Dakghar and articles on Bengali literature and culture. Recently she was an editor of the Rabindranath Tagore's anthology Ami kavi.

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‘The Future of Rabindrasangit’ in The Visva-Bharati Quarterly, new series Vol. 15 Nos. 3 & 4, Vol. 16 Nos. 1 & 2, October 2006-September 2007, published in January 2008, pp.1-11; also (revised) in Rama Datta and Clinton Seely (ed.), Celebrating Tagore: A Collection of Essays (Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 2009), pp.149-162

'Unending Love’ [a comparison of settings of WR’s translation of Tagore’s poem by Jerry Gerber, Jeroen D’hoe and Param Vir], in Reba Som and Gouri Basu (ed.), Tagore Beyond Frontiers, the brochure of a three day festival, December 4-6, 2009 (Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, Kolkata, 2010), pp. 38-44 [see Music Work]

‘Keys to the Kingdom: The Search for How Best to Understand and Perform the Songs of Tagore’ [fuller version] and ‘Talking at Night to Rabindranath’ [poem], in Kathleen M. O’Connell and Joseph T. O’Connell (ed.), Rabindranath Tagore: Reclaiming a Cultural Icon (Visva-Bharati, Kolkata, 2009), pp.123-147, 413-417

‘The Shoes’, a poem written for the Golden Jubilee of Cruse Bereavement Care, in Sara Richards, ed., Voices of Cruse 1959-2009 (Cruse Bereavement Care, 2009), p.54; also in the brochure for the Golden Jubilee reception at St James’s Palace in the Presence of Her Majesty The Queen, 8th October 2009; and at http://www.griefreliefappeal.org.uk/pdf/ShoesPoem.pdf

‘Una Biografía Poética’ [Spanish translation by Pilar Ordin of my article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 53 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)], in Shyama Prasad Ganguly and Indranil Chakravarty (ed.), Redescubriendo a Tagore: con el motivo del 150 aniversario del natalico del vate indio (Indo-Latin American Cultural Initiative, Mumbai, 2011), pp. 3-14 http://edufb.net/1403.pdf http://edufb.net/2477.pdf http://edufb.net/2387.pdf http://edufb.net/1976.pdf http://edufb.net/3386.pdf http://edufb.net/629.pdf http://edufb.net/2423.pdf http://edufb.net/649.pdf http://edufb.net/3157.pdf http://edufb.net/1964.pdf http://edufb.net/355.pdf http://edufb.net/29.pdf http://edufb.net/1364.pdf http://edufb.net/566.pdf http://edufb.net/2521.pdf http://edufb.net/1789.pdf http://edufb.net/586.pdf http://edufb.net/3291.pdf