Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore

Gitanjali by Rabindranath TagoreGitanjali, or song offerings as the English translation would mean, is the famous collection of Tagores poetry. Its a volume of one hundred and three poems selected and translated into English from Bengali, by Tagore himself. In his introduction to the first version of Gitanjali, published in 1913, Irish poet W B Yeats commented on its religious and spiritual nature and wrote that the Indian tradition of poetry was a tradition where poetry and

BOOK TWO OF THE RAJ QUARTETIndia

which tend

on from one generation to the next by the initiated

an ordinary ferryman

and Felix Kschessinky

their honour would have them confront him over and over

both cruelty and love dominate relationships between husband and wife

in the winter of 2000

a rich merchant

climbing Mount Everest remains a daunting challenge

a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War

whether it is a love that will never be yours or a love that is pure and untainted by jealousy-love will always finds a way to survive