Osun: The River Goddess of Africa
The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove is situated along the Osun River in the city of Osogbo and is a UNESCO world heritage site. Here, a statue of the goddess Osun...
Growing Up in Wilderness: African Stories of Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing was born to British parents, Alfred Taylor and Maud Me Veigh, in 1919. After the First World War, her father migrated to Africa and purchased three thousand...
Notes on Translating Poems of Ado Ahmad Gidan Dabino into English
Every language has its own qualities, not only in the poetic or linguistic sense, but also in the manner in which through the uniqueness of that language, the speakers...
Tagore and Bangladesh
Had there been no stay in East Bengal, Tagore would have been a split soul – a divided personality. A complete and undivided Tagore is that Tagore who is...
Revisiting the Idea of School Education of Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore wanted to defend the freedom he enjoyed in his family, for all humanity. He remained firmly opposed to colonial education that aimed at material prosperity. He believed...
One Last Tagore Birthday before My Death
A Diaspora, Dr. Partha shares the agony of a Bengali far away from his homeland. He confesses, there are quite a few other Bengali immigrants both from Bangladesh...
Tribute to Tagore: An eAnthology of Poems
Thirteen poets with as many poems, from three countries, pay their homages to Tagore, in verse, as Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths. #1. twenty-eight line ©Michele Baron The...
Rabindranath Tagore: An Inquiry into Ideas and Ideals
In order to acquire a worldview for himself, Tagore strove to achieve a balance between Humanism and Naturalism, Individualism and Determinism, Hedonism and Asceticism, all of them being...
Gitanjali: Interactions of Bengali Literature with the World
The English translation of Gitanjali, “Song Offerings”, encases only 103, amongst which one poem is a combined translation of two other poems. Fifty-three of the poems are from...
Remembering Tagore
In all of his creative works, what touched Navodita is the poignancy and the deep feeling of emotion that flow with his thoughts – the sensitivity, the words...