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My Reminiscences
Chapters (45)
- Translator’s Preface 0:00
- Part I: I 2:28
- II: Teaching Begins 6:01
- III: Within and Without 12:12
- Part II: IV: Servocracy 33:51
- V: The Normal School 41:51
- VI: Versification 47:52
- VII: Various Learning 52:19
- VIII: My First Outing 1:01:16
- IX: Practising Poetry 1:06:53
- Part III: X: Srikantha Babu 1:10:41
- XI: Our Bengali Course Ends 1:16:44
- XII: The Professor 1:21:05
- XIII: My Father 1:31:23
- XIV: A Journey with My Father 1:43:57
- XV: At the Himalayas 2:02:24
- Part IV: XVI: My Return 2:13:39
- XVII: Home Studies 2:28:34
- XVII: My Home Environment 2:36:42
- XIX: Literary Companions 2:48:28
- XX: Publishing 3:00:42
- XXI: Bhanu Singha 3:03:37
- XXII: Patriotism 3:07:50
- XXIII: The Bharati 3:20:16
- Part V: XXIV: Ahmedabad 3:27:01
- XXV: England 3:29:59
- XXVI: Loken Palit 3:55:55
- XXVII: The Broken Heart 3:59:34
- Part VI: XXVIII: European Music 4:13:07
- XXIX: Valmiki Pratibha 4:18:25
- XXX: Evening Songs 4:28:32
- XXXI: An Essay on Music 4:33:41
- XXXII: The Riverside 4:40:05
- XXXIII: More About the Evening Songs 4:44:34
- XXXIV: Morning Songs 4:49:46
- Part VII: XXXV: Rajendrahal Mitra 5:09:42
- XXXVI: Karwar 5:15:38
- XXXVII: Nature’s Revenge 5:20:22
- XXXVIII: Pictures and Songs 5:24:18
- XXXIX: An Intervening Period 5:27:43
- XL: Bankim Chandra 5:33:16
- Part VIII: XLI: The Steamer Hulk 5:40:28
- XLII: Bereavements 5:44:20
- XLIII: The Rains and Autumn 5:53:51
- XLIV: Sharps and Flats 5:59:23
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Rabindranath Tagore, sometimes referred to as the Bard of Bengal, was a poet, composer, and artist active in the latter half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. His poetry had a profound impact on Bengali literature—so much so that in 1913 he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Today Tagore is recognized for transforming Bengali art, moving it away from its classical forms by embracing the Bengal Renaissance. Though his artistic output spanned many disciplines, his most famous is perhaps Gitanjali, his collection of poems that he himself later translated to English. His impact on Indian and Bengali letters can be exemplified by the fact that two of his compositions were chosen as national anthems—“Jana Gana Mana” for India, and “Amar Shonar Bangla” for Bangladesh—and that the Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work.
In these autobiographical sketches Tagore gives us windows into his childhood, his youth, and his blossoming as a writer and as a lyricist. He stresses that this is not an autobiography, but more like a palimpsest of memories: glimmers and shadows that illustrate his artistic development, not a strict record of his life.