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Stories by Rabindranath Tagore Netflix (26 episodes; 2015) Even though Tagore wrote these stories more than a hundred years ago, it remains fresh and relevant to today.  Rabindranath lived at a time when India, as well as the rest of the world, was rapidly changing. His motherland, after missing the bus of the Industrial Revolution, thanks to the British East India Company and the British Empire, was doing catch up. Starting with the First Indian Rebellion @ Sepoy Mutiny in 1857, India had awoken. After being plundered by foreign forces repeatedly, it tried to make social and political changes. Many leaders emerged. Some approached them through political means, others through armed hostility and yet some via passive aggression. Tagore infiltrated the minds with his literary work. This collection of twenty stories in twenty-six episodes cover a range of issues. The stories were authored by Tagore between 1890 and 1941, just before his death. They talk about the mistreatment of young...

  By Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Those who in the name of Faith embrace illusion, Kill and are killed. Even the atheist gets God’s blessings – Does not boast of his religion; With reverence he lights the lamp of Reason And pays his homage not to scriptures, But to the good in man. The bigot insults his own religion When he slays a man of another faith. Conduct he judges not in the light of Reason; In the temple he raises the blood-stained banner And worships the devil in the name of God. All that is shameful and barbarous through the Ages, Has found a shelter in their temples – Those they turn into prisons; O, I hear the trumpet call of Destruction! Time comes with her great broom Sweeping all refuse away. That which should make man free, They turn into fetters; That which should unite, They turn into a sword; That which should bring love From the fountain of the Eternal, They turn into poison And with its waves they flood the world. They try to cross the river In ...

Rabindranath Tagore (Documentary, 1961) Written, narrated, directed: Satyajit Ray It is said that Ray is related to Tagore. The Tagores were initially from the Banerjee clan but over time they became to be called Thakur as they were Brahmins and headed the society. Thakur became Tagore. Born in a wealthy family in Bengal, he was born with a silver spoon as the thirteenth child to a 45year old mother. He did not really shine in his childhood and even in adulthood, he did not complete his tertiary education. Gradually wisdom came to him in his late twenties and the turning point came when there was tragedy in his family - 3 deaths in family; his wife, his daughter and his son. His fame spread worldwide when his poem 'Gitanjali' was praised by Yeats which made Tagore the first non-European recipient of Nobel prize for Literature. He was also knighted by the Queen which he renounced after 1919 English massacre of Indians in Punjab. Rabindranath's influence went beyond poe...

I do not pretend to fully understand the discourse that happened between these two pillars of human civilisation, one from the literary wing and the other from a man of science. Read and try to understand, if you can... http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/04/27/when-einstein-met-tagore/ by  Maria Popova Collision and convergence in Truth and Beauty at the intersection of science and spirituality. On July 14, 1930,  Albert Einstein  welcomed into his home on the outskirts of Berlin the Indian philosopher  Rabindranath Tagore . The two proceeded to have one of the most stimulating, intellectually riveting conversations in history, exploring the  age-old friction  between  science and religion .  Science and the Indian Tradition: When Einstein Met Tagore  recounts the historic encounter, amidst a broader discussion of the intellectual renaissance that swept India in the early twentieth century, germinating a curious osmosis of ...