Jul 15 2021 to Jul 15 2021 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Revisioning Tagore’s Gitanjali with Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Arshia Sattar

Rabindranth Tagore’s profound meditations on life, nature, grace and brokenness in the Gitanjali won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Even today, every Indian child learns, Where the mind is without fear . . ., his lyrical plea for freedom of thought and being. Alternately a poet and a philosopher, his words remain a part of our intellectual and artistic landscape long after his death 80 years ago.

This conversation is located in Priya Sarukkai Chabria’s contemplative and courageous new collection, Sing of Life Revisioning Tagore’s Gitanjali which chisels his prose poems into intense new poems. In the midst of a pandemic we are invited, through this book, to re-engage with Tagore’s prescient ideas on translation and his views on nature, death and suffering. The author, along with translator and writer Arshia Sattar, will explore the ways in which this work of Tagore remains relevant to the 21st century even as he points backwards to the long and diverse tradition of spiritual poetry in the South Asian sub-continent.

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