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“... Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the 125th anniversary of whose birth is being celebrated by a series of festival events in London this month, returned to Bengal in September 1913 after a triumphant spell in England. Sir William Rothenstein had introduced him to English literary and artistic circles in the course of the previous year ...”

“... Binyon and Shanks’, ‘Childe, Blunden and Earp’, even ‘Abercrombie, Drink-water and Rabindranath Tagore’? But she knows it is not so: Blight, Mildew and Smut were for Denis the poets of the decade. Aldous Huxley’s joke against Georgian poetry has lost none of its effectiveness seventy-odd years on. That tireless promoter of the ...”

“... Blake; the far less noticed Alien Homage (1993), about his father’s see-saw relationship with Rabindranath Tagore (his father, also Edward Thompson: Indianist, novelist, Georgian poet, polemicist, editor, hereinafter Old Edward – which is how I knew him). All these books are of a piece, inveighing against an academicism which mythologises ...”

“... has died, I note. I have no idea who Krishnamurti is. In my mind, he’s in the same cupboard as Rabindranath Tagore, Kalil Gibran, the Rig Veda and the turbanned commissionaire of the old Veeraswamy’s Restaurant in Swallow Street. It’s one of those cupboards I keep meaning to clear out but never do. Hearing Krishnamurti has died, I open it a ...”

“... a country with an ancient philosophical and religious, mainly Brahminical, tradition; figures like Tagore (largely misinterpreted in this respect, but with his own collusion) and Radhakrishnan loomed large as examples of high-minded, unworldly ‘Indianness’. (Narayan’s own youthful reading included, he tells us in My Days, ...”

“... cultural, emotional, philosophical and political potential of the notion of the ‘Orient’ was Tagore. A hundred years before Tagore, no Bengal poet saw the Orient and its unbroken past as a foundation, a point of origin, and a parameter for the self and for creativity; there is no ‘Orient’, or ‘East’, for the ...”

“... the province’ sheds valuable light on his son Satyajit’s later decision to film the novel Rabindranath Tagore wrote about the movement, Ghare Baire (The Home and the World); and Ray’s own family associations with Tagore himself provide equally valuable sidelights on the film director’s lifelong engagement ...”

“... anti-Westernism of From the Other Shore. Many travellers from the East, such as the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, the Chinese thinker Liang Qichao and the Islamist agitator Sayyid Qutb, would have found little to disagree with. Deploring the bourgeoisie’s homogenous culture of acquisition and consumption, Herzen came to respect human diversity not ...”

“... hearing the difference between ‘worm’ and ‘warm’. Even Calcutta’s sole Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, had trouble here. The relationship between a writer and his subjects is often a cold one and for all Chaudhuri’s artfully phrased affection for his hosts there is something merciless in his narrative of the Mukherjees’ declining ...”

“... to revitalising their own literature, which was still in thrall to Asia’s first Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore. Like many American poets, including Ginsberg but also Eliot and Stevens, Ashbery and O’Hara, they were galvanised by modern French poetry. Like the Surrealists, they issued their own magazine (called Krittibas) and manifestos under the ...”

“... and they married in 1924. Leonard had been influenced by the Bengali poet and rural reformer Rabindranath Tagore, Dorothy by New York’s settlement house movement. They began casting around for a rural English property on which to build a utopia of their own. When they bought Dartington Hall and its eight hundred acres in 1925, there were only ...”

“... Yeats is covered in detail – as are his associations with everyone from Olivia Shakespear to Rabindranath Tagore to Harriet Monroe. Capsule biographies of everyone and their lover (and their literary rag) are provided at each turn. It seems that in Carr, modernism has found its recording angel. By leaving nothing out, Carr ensures two ...”

“... of Indian influence. Yet everything was subtly changed by the prevailing local cultures. When Rabindranath Tagore visited South-East Asia in 1927, he wrote: ‘Everywhere I could see India, yet I could not recognise it.’In these enterprises, trade did not follow the flag, because there was usually no flag to follow. These were not colonies of ...”

“... Human Security. Sen also devised a widely used index for measuring poverty and has written about Rabindranath Tagore, a family friend. Accordingly, the material in this new book is exhilaratingly broad. He discusses human rights, the Mahabharata, bounded rationality, development aid, the Bengal famine of 1943, cognitive psychology and risk ...”

“... writing in the same period, was more aggressive. His poems (badly translated into English by Rabindranath Tagore) are still sung in many parts of India. One of them, not a Tagore translation, reads: Cow dung’s impure the bathing-square is impure even its curves are impure Kabir says: Only they are pure Who’ve ...”