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At home in the world ; More than just a poet, Rabindranath Tagore was a novelist, writer of some of the best short stories, a composer of songs and a moulder of independent India's intellectual inheritance.

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From: India Today
Date: 20080421
Author:William Radice

RABINDRANATH TAGORE WRITER, 1861-1941

Was Rabindranath Tagore 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, by non-Bengali Indians tired of the Bengali obsession with him, and even, dare one say it, by some Bengalis.

I myself have often privately asked it, testing him, so to speak, against other great poets. In the last couple of months, I have read through Homer, Virgil, Dante and Milton.

But I've also, as always, been reading Tagore his sermons collected in ...

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At home in the world ; More than just a poet, Rabindranath Tagore was a novelist, writer of some of the best short stories, a composer of songs and a moulder of independent India's intellectual inheritance.

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