INTERVIEWED BY BISHNUPRIYA CHOWDHURI

“Long before he was bestowed with the title and all that associated reverence of a #world-poet, he was just another boy. Eighth in the line of eleven siblings, #Rabindranath was sent to #Europe for the first time at the age of seventeen to learn and to get acquainted with the western ways of life.
This concise #curation of ten letters and an excerpt from his #autobiography translated from the original #Bengali into #English reveals to the readers, not the wise old poet but the young man in the making as he steps out of his home to the wide, foreign world for the first time and writes these letters as a means to share his encounters and insights.”

This conversation, with the translator herself, throws light on some of the selected memoirs and letters of Tagore and the stories and anecdotes behind some of them.

Also, read Book Excerpt from Memoirs and Letters by Rabindranath Tagore, Translated from The Bengali by Manjira Dasgupta and published in The Antonym:

BOOK EXCERPT FROM MEMOIRS AND LETTERS—RABINDRANATH TAGORE