Shades of Difference

Radha Chakravarty is a writer, critic and translator. She has co-edited The Essential Tagore, nominated Book of the Year 2011. She is the author of Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers and Novelist Tagore: Gender and Modernity in Selected Texts. She has translated some of Tagore’s important works, as well as the writings of several major Bengali writers from India and Bangladesh. She has also edited and co-edited a number of anthologies of South Asian literature. She was nominated for the Crossword Translation Award, 2004. She is Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi.

Contributors;

1.A Many Coloured World: Rabindranath Tagore and the Dynamics of Difference. 2. A Fantastic Tale. 3. The Living and the Dead. 4. Trespass.5. Misplaced Hope.6. The Parrot’s Training.7. Chitra 8. Chandalika. 9. The Music of the Bauls.10. What is a Nation ?11. The Greater Part.12. State vs. Society 13. The Welfare of the People.14. Construction vs. Creation.15. Charkha, the Spinning Wheel.16. An Eastern University.17. The Co-operative Principle.18. Rhythm.19. Hindus and Muslims.20. Gandhi and the Bihar Earthquake.21. Woman.22. The Divinity of the Forest.23. Crisis in Civilization.24. To Indira Devi.25. To R.G. Pradhan.26. To C.F. Andrews.27. To Margaret Sanger. 28. To Hemantabala Devi.29. Letters from Russia.30. In Persia.31. Tagore and H.G.Wells.32. Tagore and Romain Rolland.33. Tagore and Albert Einstein. 34. From Gitanjali.35. From The Gardner. 36. Songs of Kabir. 37. From the Stray Birds.38. From Fruit Gathering. 39. From The Fugitive.40. From The Fireflies. 41. From Poems. 42. Kabir and the Woman