KOLKATA: Admirers of Rabindranath Tagore have a novel reward watching for them this Baishe Shrabon (August 7), his 77th dying anniversary, when a facsimile version of the poet’s personal replica of Gitanjali together with his handwritten notes on the margins can be unveiled.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right through his contemporary seek advice from to Visva-Bharati University as its acharya (chancellor), had mooted the speculation of publishing the uncommon replica for mass stream. The PM, right through his seek advice from to Sweden previous this year, had gifted a duplicate of the primary replica to the Nobel Museum, which now unearths a pride of position amongst different memorabilia of Nobel laureates.
Happily accepting the PM’s recommendation, VBU is taking this uncommon merchandise out of its archives to get a facsimile version revealed so that readers are able to leaf through this 106-year-old first replica of Gitanjali, which used to be additionally Tagore’s personal replica.
In 1912, the India Society in London were given Tagore’s handwritten manuscript published by way of Chiswick Press with the assistance of artist William Rothenstein, an avid Tagore fan. Rothenstein sent it to his friend, Irish poet WB Yeats, and both were so impressed by way of the deep philosophy of Tagore’s poems that they decided to ship it to the Swedish Academy for its consideration for the Nobel Prize. Yeats wrote the foreword and Rothenstein drew a demonstration of Tagore, which were integrated in the first e book.
The trio of Tagore, Yeats and Rothenstein used to be additionally joined by way of American poet Ezra Pound. There were sessions after sessions of readings and discussions prior to the e book used to be in spite of everything sent to the Nobel committee.
Tagore stored changing and correcting phrases and words here and there together with his pencil in this published version until the closing second and stored it as his personal replica of Gitanjali. The India Society were given a contemporary replica published (the second one replica) incorporating the changes and this used to be sent to the Swedish Academy for its consideration.
The corrections that Tagore made together with his pencil, even the marks left by way of bookworms in this 106-year-old replica, have remained intact in the facsimile version. “We sought after to get that original feel. When you get this e book, it'll give you goosebumps for ‘nearly maintaining’ Tagore’s prized possession,” mentioned Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay, the spokesperson of Rabindra Bhavana.
In 1913, Tagore won the Nobel Prize for literature. This first replica remained one in every of his most-loved possessions and after his passing away in 1941, the replica used to be handed over to Rabindra Bhavana archives in Uttarayan advanced of Santiniketan for preservation. It stays there to at the present time.
The officiating vice-chancellor of VBU, Sabuj Koli Sen, mentioned when Modi sent the replica to the Swedish Nobel Museum, most effective 5 facsimile editions were published. When the PM got here to Santiniketan on May 25, he used to be gifted probably the most four copies that used to be left with VBU. This is when the decision used to be taken to move public.
“On Baishe Shrabon, we hope to return out with the facsimile version of this very special e book so that readers can purchase them from VBU bookstores. We are doing this in affiliation with Visva-Bharati’s publications department,” Sen mentioned.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right through his contemporary seek advice from to Visva-Bharati University as its acharya (chancellor), had mooted the speculation of publishing the uncommon replica for mass stream. The PM, right through his seek advice from to Sweden previous this year, had gifted a duplicate of the primary replica to the Nobel Museum, which now unearths a pride of position amongst different memorabilia of Nobel laureates.
Happily accepting the PM’s recommendation, VBU is taking this uncommon merchandise out of its archives to get a facsimile version revealed so that readers are able to leaf through this 106-year-old first replica of Gitanjali, which used to be additionally Tagore’s personal replica.
In 1912, the India Society in London were given Tagore’s handwritten manuscript published by way of Chiswick Press with the assistance of artist William Rothenstein, an avid Tagore fan. Rothenstein sent it to his friend, Irish poet WB Yeats, and both were so impressed by way of the deep philosophy of Tagore’s poems that they decided to ship it to the Swedish Academy for its consideration for the Nobel Prize. Yeats wrote the foreword and Rothenstein drew a demonstration of Tagore, which were integrated in the first e book.
The trio of Tagore, Yeats and Rothenstein used to be additionally joined by way of American poet Ezra Pound. There were sessions after sessions of readings and discussions prior to the e book used to be in spite of everything sent to the Nobel committee.
Tagore stored changing and correcting phrases and words here and there together with his pencil in this published version until the closing second and stored it as his personal replica of Gitanjali. The India Society were given a contemporary replica published (the second one replica) incorporating the changes and this used to be sent to the Swedish Academy for its consideration.
The corrections that Tagore made together with his pencil, even the marks left by way of bookworms in this 106-year-old replica, have remained intact in the facsimile version. “We sought after to get that original feel. When you get this e book, it'll give you goosebumps for ‘nearly maintaining’ Tagore’s prized possession,” mentioned Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay, the spokesperson of Rabindra Bhavana.
In 1913, Tagore won the Nobel Prize for literature. This first replica remained one in every of his most-loved possessions and after his passing away in 1941, the replica used to be handed over to Rabindra Bhavana archives in Uttarayan advanced of Santiniketan for preservation. It stays there to at the present time.
The officiating vice-chancellor of VBU, Sabuj Koli Sen, mentioned when Modi sent the replica to the Swedish Nobel Museum, most effective 5 facsimile editions were published. When the PM got here to Santiniketan on May 25, he used to be gifted probably the most four copies that used to be left with VBU. This is when the decision used to be taken to move public.
“On Baishe Shrabon, we hope to return out with the facsimile version of this very special e book so that readers can purchase them from VBU bookstores. We are doing this in affiliation with Visva-Bharati’s publications department,” Sen mentioned.
Coming soon: Tagore's ‘handwritten’ Gitanjali
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