Korczak gets the child to clean the orphanage floor in an unusual way

A wonderful collection of work inspired by Rabindranath Tagore. Published by SAMPAD with the British Council in response to a writing competition 'Inspired by Tagore'. The book contains poems and prose from around the world together with each writers brief description of how their work was inspired by Tagore.

My poem, 'Meditation on Epstein's Head of Rabindranath Tagore' is included.

The book has just been published.

ISBN 978-0-9565416-3-5 Cover design by Ishan Khosla Design Associates

www.sampad.org.uk

www.britishcouncil.org.in/arts

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

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"man has intrinsic delight in the act of creation " - Rabindranath Tagore

shot @ kumartuli , kolkata

lens info :50mm prime , f\1.8

"I do not want to die in this beautiful world,

But live in the hearts of men,

And find a niche in the sun-sprinkled, flowered forest.

The play of life heaves like waves

With its tears and smiles,

Meeting and parting!

Stringing together

Man's joys and sorrows,

I want to build on this earth

My eternal home.

Ever new flower-songs I bring to blossom,

For you to gather them, dawn and dusk.

Take them smiling -

And alas, when they wither

Scatter them far away."

~ Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941 ~

Today we celebrate 150 years of our very own Rabi thakur....Rabindranath Tagore.

Bengalis, wherever they are, in the world, they are united by Rabi Thakur.

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

― Rabindranath Tagore

~ Rabindranath Tagore

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

― Rabindranath Tagore

1929, India --- The poet and philosopher Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941),with some of his Buddhist students. India, 1929. --- Image by © E.O. Hoppé/CORBIS