Geetanjali - Softcover

TAGORE, RAVINDRANATH

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8184984081 ISBN 13: 9788184984088

Publisher: Mehta Publishing House, 2019

Synopsis

GEETANJALI IS A BOOK OF POEMS WRITTEN BY THE OBEL LAUREATE, RABINDRANATH TAGORE. THIS BOOK CONTAINS THE TRANSLATED VERSIONS OF 103 BENGALI POEMS WRITTEN BY THE FAMOUS POET. IT WAS PUBLISHED ORIGINALLY IN THE YEAR 1910, IN BENGALI. THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE BOOK WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE YEAR 1912. RABINDRANATH TAGORE BECAME THE FIRST NONEUROPEAN TO WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE, THANKS TO GEETANJALI. THE WORD GEETANJALI DIRECTLY TRANSLATES TO ‘SONG OFFERINGS’, AND THE POEMS IN THE BOOK HAVE MANY METAPHYSICAL ELEMENTS. THESE POEMS EVEN REFER TO A UNION WITH THE ‘SUPREME BEING’. RABINDRANATH TAGORE’S POEMS REFLECT HIS VIEWS ON LIFE AND SPIRITUALITY, AND TALK ABOUT THE MYSTERY, MELANCHOLY, AND COLOR SURROUNDING EVERYDAY LIFE. RABINDRANATH TAGORE WAS BORN ON MAY 7, 1861. TAGORE WAS A NOVELIST, POET, ESSAYIST, WRITER, PLAYWRIGHT, SONG COMPOSER, AND PAINTER. HE IS WIDELY KNOWN FOR CHANGING THE FACE OF BENGALI AND INDIAN LITERATURE AND MUSIC THROUGH HIS WORKS. TAGORE IS ONE OF THE MOST ESTEEMED RENAISSANCE FIGURES OF INDIA AND WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR PUTTING INDIA ON THE LITERARY MAP WITH HIS AWARDWINNING WRITING. HE WAS ALSO WIDELY ACCLAIMED AS A POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND SOCIAL THINKER AND INNOVATOR, DUE TO HIS WORK THROUGH SANTINIKETAN AND VISWABHARATI. HIS OTHER FAMOUS WORKS INCLUDE THE HOME AND THE WORLD, THE POST OFFICE, CHOKHER BALI, KABULIWALA, GORA, THE GARDENER, AND THE LAST POEM....हे छोटंस फूल पटकन खुडून घे, विलंब करू नकोस! अन्यथा ते कोमेजून जमिनीवर धुळीत पडेल, अशी मला भीती वाटते. त्याला तुझ्या गळ्यातील हारात जागा मिळाली नाही तरी चालेल; पण तुझ्या हाताने खुडून घेताना होणाऱ्या वेदनेने बहुमानितकर आणि खुडून घे. मी सावध होण्याआधी बघताबघता दिवस ढळेल आणि तुझ्या अर्चनेसाठी अर्पण होण्याची वेळ निघून जाईल, अशी मला भीती वाटते. ह्या फुलाचा रंग जरासा उडालेला असला आणि गंध मंद झाला असला, तरी त्याला तुझ्या पूजेत सहभागी व्हायची संधी दे. वेळेतच त्याला खुडून घे.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mehta Publishing House
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: Marathi
• ISBN 10: 8184984081
• ISBN 13: 9788184984088
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 116