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The Home and the World: A Poignant Exploration of Love and Nationalism from Rabindranath Tagore Kindle Edition

by Rabindranath Tagore (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The Post office is a story of an eight-year-old boy who is terminally ill and is confined inside his house by the family physician. He sees the outside world only through his window. He talks to the passers-by and engages them in eager conversations. Flower seller's daughter Sudha has made a promise of bringing flowers for him. Watchman tells him that the big building with the flag is the king's new Post office. He imagines that he will receive a letter from the King and based on that he constructs an imaginary world for himself. He dreams of being the royal postman and awaits the king's visit.
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    Prabhat Prakashan
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    January 4, 2018
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B078STRZQQ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Prabhat Prakashan (January 4, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 4, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 788 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 203 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Rabindranath Tagore

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Rabindranath Tagore was a Nobel Laureate for Literature (1913) as well as one of India’s greatest poets and the composer of independent India’s national anthem, as well as that of Bangladesh. He wrote successfully in all literary genres, but was first and foremost a poet, publishing more than 50 volumes of poetry. He was a Bengali writer who was born in Calcutta and later traveled around the world. He was knighted in 1915, but gave up his knighthood after the massacre of demonstrators in India in 1919.

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Shannon
5.0 out of 5 stars Kept me wanting to read it
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2022
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This story kept me wanting to find out what would happen with Bimala. Will she see what a dirty dog Sandip really is? Will she make amends with her husband? What will happen with all that turmoil going on around them? I enjoyed reading this story.
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Siddhesh Dabholkar
4.0 out of 5 stars The Premier South Asian Novel
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2015
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A great novel, from a visionary thinker. Rabindranath Tagore presents an interesting love triangle of sorts, intermixed with the politics and revolution that was going on in the Bengal region of India (with the Swadeshi Movement). He presents the point of view of three characters, Bimala, Nikhil, and Sandip, and gives each of them wonderful character development throughout the novel. What boggles my mind, however, is how Tagore was able to think about women in such a liberal point of view from the time period he was in (like, he's more liberal and forward-thinking in this novel and in his life (late 1800s to mid 1900s) when it comes to feminism than most men are right now). All in all, a great novel and a must read if you're a fan of South Asian Literature.
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tushar choubisa
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece Rabindranath Tagore
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2013
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This is a great novel, with only handful of characters.
But it explores and learns about the very minute details of our social fabric.

The three main characters are: Rajah,an intellectual with only good intentions for humanity.
His wife: an average worldly woman, who i think represent humanity herself.
A farcial oppurtunist.
And changing times of revolutionay bengal when it was rising against English rule.

These people come alive in book and they talk, present and discuss, their thought process, then ideas.
And then actions unroll themselves. As reader, When you connect the dots for individuals in novel and the plot itself, it leaves you enlightened.
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Kathleen Vincenz
3.0 out of 5 stars Struggle through--it's worth getting to the end
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2015
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It was worth getting to the end of this book and plowing through all of the philosophical discussions. The end is a surprise and quite an entanglement showing how deception destroys. It also piqued my interest in India and its freedom movement so I researched the subject to hopefully have a better understanding of the many years that it took for India to be free and the different movements there were--not just Gandhi. We all have such a limited view of other nation's struggles.

As always, good literature gives us empathy for our fellow person and this book did that.
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Premanand
5.0 out of 5 stars Very poetic!!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2013
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Rabindranath has written this prose in a very poetic way. It describes in a very poignant way the struggle that goes on in the minds of three people. Many of the lines in the book are fantastic and have become my personal favorites. You would go over them again and again and everytime the line and the thoughts behind it would amaze you.
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Deb
4.0 out of 5 stars Internal struggles amidst outside strife
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2014
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A multi-layered exploration of human psyche, in the specific context of (possible!) extra-marital relations. The surface story is about a landowning royal ('zamindar') in Indian Bengal during the tumultous days of Indian independence struggle and 'swadeshi' (the movement for indigenous goods), and it brings out with clarity the motivations of myriad people across the social and economic divide, not all of them motivated by noble thoughts! The underlying story is the internal struggle of the husband and the wife in the unsettling presence of a supposed freedom fighter (but actually a conceited charlatan). Though set in early 20th century, the novel reveals progressive thoughts about women's place in the society and household. With the usual spiritual streak, a characteristic of Rabindranath Thakur's writing epitomised by 'Geetanjali'.
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B. Scales
5.0 out of 5 stars The roots of Modern India
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2014
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Tagore's language, at least in this translation, is spare, and credible. He tells a tale of human relations giving definition to the ideological, sexual and personal values which shape our lives. A story of founding myths of nationalist movements, their power and the dangers of their excesses.
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Julio Singer
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a very well written book on the social ...
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2016
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This is a very well written book on the social and political relations during the period preceding the partition of India. A movie based on the book is available in Youtube [...]
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ian mcnamara
5.0 out of 5 stars Really struggled to get into this.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 6, 2017
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I read this book for book discussion I am about to take part in this evening, however I really found the book hard to get into. I could not connect with the characters although some of the historical bits were interesting. I finished it due to the fact I need to discuss it this evening but it is not a book I would recommend.
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Piers Rowlandson
4.0 out of 5 stars A strange fable illustrating the weaknesses of man.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 28, 2022
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Despite the fact that my grandfather lived all his professional life in India and was only about twenty years younger than Rabindranath Tagore, I had never heard of the man who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 and whose statue is to be found in major cities all over Europe including Gordon Square in London. I now know that he was a poet, novelist, playwright, composer and painter who had an enormous influence not only on Bengali culture but also on the work of his contemporary Europeans in many fields. The Home and the World is his best-known novel, but it is a hard read for someone not accustomed to the role of literature in India (and Persia), where poets are revered and listened to because they seem to have special insight into the hearts and minds of men. They are regarded as philosophers and prophets and in the past have influenced the rulers of the day. So what may seem to a European a rather obvious story illustrating the war between good and evil would have a deeper meaning for Bengali audiences in the first quarter of the twentieth century. I am not well enough acquainted with the politics pre-independence to understand this aspect of the story, which would have been of great importance to a contemporary audience. To me the characters seemed rather two-dimensional and I was irritated by the lack of capital letters in the translation I read as it made spotting names more difficult! But well worth reading.
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pst
4.0 out of 5 stars Well written
Reviewed in India on June 2, 2018
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Well written story about the choosing between the right and the wrong. There are a few printing mistakes but the book is certainly a good read.
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KAC
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 27, 2017
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An interesting author. I heard about him in a talk I attended. Not an easy read but we'll worth the effort.
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Sandipan Majhi
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book
Reviewed in India on January 25, 2016
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A splendid read .......... The culture and the fires of it runs through every pages ...its a journey of lives and the music that is playing in them ....its the tunes that gives us the strength and the happiness ....Its a book that fails logical explanations ...its a book that teaches us the simplicity of the instincts.
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