International conference on Tagore’s global outlook
October 6th, 2011 - 7:52 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) A two-day international conference on Rabindranath Tagore’s vision of the contemporary world will cast fresh light on the Nobel Laureate’s outlook to humanity and universal concerns as a global literary icon on his 150th birth anniversary.
The conference Oct 10-12, presented by the Indian Council For Cultural Relations (ICCR) at the Azad Bhavan here, will be inaugurated by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the Council announced Thursday.
The keynote address will be delivered by scholar Amiya K. Bagchi on “Rabindranath Tagore and the Human Condition”.
It will be followed by the Indian Revival Group’s presentation of “Amader Gurudev”, a tribute to Tagore using his dance, drama and films.
The conference will take up themes like “Beyond Nationalism: Contesting the Boundaries between the Home and the World”, “Man and the Universe: The Ecological Oneness”, “Writings of Tagore and his Integrated Vision” and “The New Education: Reasoning in Freedom”.
Academics and artists from India and abroad will come together to reflect on the challenges of the contemporary world and the relevance of Tagore’s philosophy and his vision of freedom and the unity of mankind.
“In my own view, Tagore was very proud to be an Indian, but at the same time he was equally proud to think of himself as a global citizen. In fact Tagore was a complete Renaissance man of modern India. He was a bridge between our own culture and the cultures of the world and in that way India’s first global citizen,” ICCR president Karan Singh said.
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