Feb 052011

Tagore is regarded as one of the pioneers in creating a relationship with China. In cooperation with great personalities such as Tan Yun- Shan, he established the Institute for Sino-Indian Studies (Cheena Bhavana) in Visva Bharati, Santiniketan.  Click here to read a fascinating book published to celebrate the centenary of Tan Yun-Shan.   Amongst many interesting letters and correspondence between Yun-Shan, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Tagore, you will also find Tagore’s address at the opening ceremony of Visva-Bharati Cheena-Bhavana on April 14, 1937. This is how it begins:

The most memorable fact of human history is that of a path-opening, not for the clearing of a passage for machines or machine guns, but for helping the realisation by races of their affinity of minds, their mutual obligation of a common humanity




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Our Tagore events

  • Oct 6, 2012 AUTUMN EXTRAVAGANZA, Michael Power St. Joseph High School, Toronto. A variety show with Tagore’s works, and a multicultural Dance Ensemble with folk dances of Ukraine, Chile, and India.

  • Sep 25, 2012 'Walking Alone: Justice and Inequality in Tagore's thought', talk by Ananya Mukherjee-Reed at Princeton University, USA.

  • May 4, 2012 Soul of Spring,McMichael Art Gallery, Kleinburg, Ontario. A medley of music, dance and poetry based on Tagore's play. It was performed during an exhibition of Tagore's paintings 'The Last Harvest' at the gallery.

  • Jan 19, 2012 'Race and Diversity in Tagore', talk by Ananya Mukherjee-Reed at the University of Toronto

  • Sept 30, 2011 Tagore reading at the Festival of South Asian Literature and the Arts

  • October 2, 2011 A panel on Tagore featuring Uma Dasgupta and Martha Nussbaum on Writers & Company, CBC Radio One Broadcast time 3:05 pm Eastern. Click here for more details and podcast
  • Dec 3-4, 2011: A film festival featuring the North American premier of two films based on Tagore's work.
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