Death

The poet Rabindranath Tagore died on August 7th, 1941. Hugh Tinker charts the life of the man who was, perhaps, Indias greatest son in modern times.We have discovered by now that the stereotype of the Unchanging East obscures more than it explains. Yet, equally unhelpful in the Asian context is the Victorian concept of Progress or in our own day Development (they are much the same) envisaging an onward evolution towards an advanced material culture.