Rabindaranath Tagore

Rabindaranath Tagore

Excellent admirably straightforward, readable, lively, informative.!

J.D.F. Jones, Financial Times

‘Judicious, sympathetic and exceedingly well documented!

P.N. Furbank, The Times

“This seems to exemplify the sort of biography little dared any more; an enquiry into the spirit and mind of a man whom the authors trust and admire and do not presume to overinterpret.’

Candia McWilliam, Independent on Sunday

A superb biography. Adam Kirsch, New Yorker

‘Enjoyable, often astute, and highly readable.

Amit Chaudhuri, Spectator

‘It has been a pleasure to read a well-written, well-researched and well-documented biography.

Kathleen Raine, The Tablet

‘An ambitious and altogether brilliant biography… exceptionally fair-minded. Sunday (Calcutta)

“The entire book was a revelation to me…. It brings out very clearly that Tagore was intellectually more perceptive than Gandhi.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Laureate in physics

“The best-known biography of Rabindranath Tagore in English carries the subtitle “The Myriad-Minded Man”. This is entirely merited.

Ramachandra Guha, historian, in his book Speaking with Nature