It is common knowledge that Rabindranath Tagore won the nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his Gitanjali. In what language did the Bengali poet write? The Gitanjali we know was in English, but why did Tagore almost never write any subsequent poetry in that language? When he was awarded the Nobel, the slim volume of Gitanjali was the only major literary work in English that the poet had to his credit. Yet the Nobel committee passed over luminaries like Thomas Hardy to award the prize to Tagore. What did the West find in Tagore?
The documentary film highlights the fascinating story of Rabindranath Tagore and speaks of the dramatic circumstances that caused Gitanjali to make history.
30 янв 2011
