WATERFALL, THE (hb)2002

WATERFALL, THE (hb)2002 Author: TAGORE ISBN: 8171677835 Publisher: RUPA & CO. (SONA BOOKS) INDIA. Category: GENERAL INTEREST  >-- DRAMA  >-- DRAMA If you think any change in category please advise us Language: ENGLISH Pages: 104  price 5 $

ABOUT THE TITLE

‘The Waterfall’ was first published in 1922 the same year as its Bengali original Muktadhara. Tagore admittedly chose the title inspired by the Pagla-jhora or the Mad Stream the waterfall at Darjeeling. It is considered by many as one of the finest plays written by Tagore. ‘The Waterfall’ was first published in 1922 the same year as its Bengali original Muktadhara (Free Current). Tagore admittedly chose the title inspired by the Pagla-jhora or the Mad Stream he waterfall at Darjeeling. It is considered by many as one of the finest plays written by Tagore. The play in Tagore’s own words ‘is a representation of a concrete psychology’. Abhijit one the principal characters after a revelation of his castaway status develops a belief that he has a spiritual relationship with the waterfall beside whose mouth he was discovered. He is convinced that he has a message to convey to the world – to open out paths for the adventurous spirit of man. This self-realization leads him to emancipate not only the prisoned waters of ‘Muktadhara’ but also his own life from the shackles of the palace and its responsibilities. Author: Rabindranath Tagore Nobel Laureate is the most eminent modern Indian writer to have appeared on the whole literary scene. He put India on the literary map of the world when his Gitanjali was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1913. A poets poet he is a maker of not only modern Indian literature but also the modern Indian mind and civilization. Myriad-minded he was a poet short story writer novelist dramatist essayist painter and composer of songs. Gandhi called him the Great Sentinel . His world-wide acclaim as a social political religious and aesthetic thinker innovator in education and a champion of the One World idea makes him a living presence.