The Home and The World

<p>Through a powerful tale of the female protagonistBimala Tagore describes the battle he had with himself.The woman is torn between the duties owed to her husband Nikhil and the demands made on her by the radical leader Sandip. The story based on love and political awakening illustrates two opposing ideas which reflect the history of the Bengal region and set against the backdrop of the Swadeshi movement.</p><p>Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a renowned poetmusician polymath Ayurveda-researcher and an artist who recast music Bengali literature and Indian art in the late 19th and early 20th century. Author of the profoundly sensitive revolutionary and beautiful verse of Gitanjali he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1913. Rabindranath Tagore was also referred to as 'the Bard of Bengal'. His compositions Jana Gana Mana and Amar Sonar Bangla were embraced by two nations as their national anthems respectively.</p>