A Child’s Innate Wisdom and Capacity for Love: Lessons from Tagore’s Poetry Book, Crescent Moon
Most of Tagore’s poems for children don’t seem to be written for children at all. In his collection ‘Crescent Moon’ (1913) for instance, each poem is like a gentle admonish
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The Floral Beauty of Women: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s ‘Durgeshnandini’
In 1865 Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote the first major novel in the history of Bengali literature, ‘Durgeshnandini’ (Doorgeshnondini) . While most of us recognize Chattopad
The Namelessness of Childhood: AK Ramanujan’s Love Poem for his Wife
This beautiful ode to love and childhood is an intimate conversation between two people who are getting to know each other, bit-by-bit and story by story. In this letter to his wif