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Acknowledgements ix
Introduction xi
My Life
My Family and the Changing Times 3
My Boyhood Days 15
My Father and Mother 27
A New Chapter in My Life 39
Leaving Home: Ahmedabad and England, 1878-79 51
My Education 63
Writing Poetry 75
Restless Years, 1883-90 87
On the Threshold of Thirty 99
My Wife and Children 111
Letters to My Children 125
Starting My School at Santiniketan, 1901 136
My Experience of the Swadeshi Movement 148
Gitanjali and the Nobel Prize, 1913 160
My Travels in Japan and the USA, 1916-17 172
Renouncing the Knighthood, and My Arguments against Non-cooperation 183
'A World in One Nest': Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan 194
Visva-Bharati 'Sriniketan': A Scheme for Village Reconstruction 204
In China, 1924 215
An Unexpected Stop in Argentina 227
Gandhiji and I 239
In Europe Again, 1926 253
An Uneasy though Versatile Period, 1927-31 265
More Travel, More Poetry, More Drama 279
Crisis and Hope: My Last Years, 1937-41 293
My Thoughts
On Myself 309
On Religion 319
On Nature 328
On My Country 336
On British Rule in India 348
To My Friends 360
From My Poems and Songs 369
Select Bibliography 384
Index 389
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Curtis Waller
reviewed My Life in My Words on November 20, 2012
My Life in My Words
Excerpts from my review at Solomon Says:
"My Life in My Words" is divided into two sections; the first titled "My Life" is the actual autobiography in 25 chapters. It starts with a brief outline UDG, then hands over to excerpts carefully culled from Tagore's vast body of writing (in Bangla and English) and his voluminous correspondence to paint a complete picture of the events, and ideas dominating a period of his life. The result is quite unlike a regular biography.
The second and much shorter section titled "My Thoughts" is a more conventional affair, being a collection of short pieces (usually excerpts from longer works) on subjects that mattered the most to Tagore - nature, his country, and his life. These are extremely impassioned pieces, in some ways much more autobiographical than the previous section.
This book is not merely about Tagore. It is about the cultural and political currents of Bengal of his times. It is about Ram Mohan Roy's renaissance, Calcutta's urbanization, and the retreat of the wilderness. It is about the world as it convulsed with two world wars, about oriental nations rejecting their ancient identities in favour of a hollow and bellicose westernization, and about an India struggling with its identity and independence.
The most fascinating sections of the book are those which describe the author's childhood. His prose-poetry brings his own vivid imagination to life in writing and drags the reader into the wide open spaces and narrow corridors where he played as child. Effused with childlike wonder at everything, it is effortless to read and impossible to not be enchanted by.
For bringing afresh to us the words of Rabindranath Tagore, often ignored in our times as a brilliant but reclusive poet, we are indebted to UDG. Although in no way comparable to a complete collection of works more suitable to research, My Life in My Words is an enchanting glimpse into his multifaceted personality. If you must know India, you must know Tagore, and this book is a fantastic stepping stone for this.
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