Anita Desai and Andrew Robinson The Modern Resonance of Rabindranath Tagore
He bestowed the title \u201cMahatma\u201d on Gandhi. He debated the deepest nature of reality with Einstein. He was championed by Yeats and Pound to become the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Rabindranath Tagore was a polymath \u2014 a writer and a painter, a philosopher and a musician, and a social innovator \u2014 but much of his poetry and prose is virtually untranslatable (or inaccessibly translated) for modern minds. We pull back the \u201cdusty veils\u201d that have hidden his memory from history.