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  • Obituary: Arundhati Biswas

    It is with great sadness that we report our beloved member Arundhati Biswas passed away earlier this year. Arundhati joined the Tagore Centre UK soon after its foundation and remained an active and dedicated member until the last days of her life. She served as Vice Chair, and as Cultural Secretary for many years. She…

  • Obituary: Devi Kundu

    November 1940 – March 2025 It is with a heavy heart that we convey the news of Devi Kundu’s passing. She passed away peacefully in hospital on 1 March 2025, surrounded by her loving family. Devi (or Devi Di, as she was affectionately known) was one of the founding members of The Tagore Centre UK…

  • Obituary: Amal Chaudhuri

    1935 – December 2024 Amal Chaudhuri (Amalda) was a beloved dad, father-in-law, brother, uncle and friend, as well as a valued Rotarian, member and former chairman of The Tagore Centre UK, and life member of the Ramakrishna Vivekananda Mission UK Centre. In his professional life he trained in medicine in India and the UK and…

  • A talk with Dr Barid Bhattacharya and Rabindrasangeet by Dr Sunit Ghatak

    Sunday 8 June 2025, 2.30 – 4.30 pm CUFOS Community Centre, Top of The Avenue, London N10 2QE Dr Barid Bhattacharya – a sports and consultant adult psychiatrist doctor, and a long-term member and supporter of The Tagore Centre UK – will be talking about “The psychological benefits of exercise”. Dr Bhattacharya graduated as a…

  • A tribute to William Radice

    On Saturday, 24 May 2025, a heartfelt memorial was held at the Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, to honour the life and work of Professor William Radice, a much-loved scholar, colleague and friend. The Tagore Centre UK organised the event in collaboration with SOAS University of London, where William had long been associated as a research…

  • New publication for sale

    A Hundred Years of Visva-Bharati Tagore’s Dream, Today’s Reality Edited by Kalyan Kundu and Christine Marsh First published 2023£25 (plus postage and package)ISBN: 978 1 3999 2969 1 The year 2021 marked the centenary of Visva-Bharati, a university located in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva-Bharati, which…

  • The Tagore Centre UK Bursary awarded to Natasha Chawla

    The Tagore Centre UK bursary was established as an endowment in 2022 to celebrate the work of Rabindranath Tagore and to nurture the field by supporting students. Donations towards the bursary are welcome and can be made online here. Please select “Tagore Centre UK Bursary” when asked “Where can we designate your gift?” in the…

  • About your membership

    We have entered into a period of working intensively to bring our membership fully up-to-date. This means that unfortunately if you have not paid outstanding membership fees by 1 September 2017, we will regretfully be taking your name off our membership list. If you are unsure about when your last payment was, please email us…

  • Thank you – 2000 AD

    Dear friends and supporters, thank you for your kind donations, helping us raise a total of £3,857 through our Just Giving page, it is greatly appreciated. Through these funds we have purchased another year’s extension on our lease, here at Alexandra Park Library, providing us more time to seek further support, plan our business strategy…

  • The First Encounter (1878)

    It seems Rabindranath Tagore, though acknowledged as a well-respected Indian artist, still found some of his peers in England to be a little patronising. The following is an excerpt taken from his letters from Europe. “Before I came to England, I supposed that it was such a small island and its inhabitants were so devoted…

  • Help us raise £20,000 to save The Tagore Centre UK

    The Tagore Centre UK exists to promote the extraordinary works and life of Rabindranath Tagore, a myriad-minded literary genius, arguably Indian’s greatest artist and the first non-European recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Centre is open to all communities and cultures and is committed to spreading Tagore’s message of universal humanity beyond all…

  • Words II, Listening II, Waiting II

    By Nuala Dalton Hello. This is my final blog entry as I end my project. It has been a period of focus on receptivity rather than activity, listening, waiting and allowing time. In keeping with my intentions for this area, rather than writing a long essay, which I could easily do, I share a few…

  • Dwarkanath Tagore Lecture presented by Mr Sumit Mitra

    The Tagore Centre UK is pleased to present the full transcript and photographs from the centre’s extremely successful event on 2nd August, which featured a captivating talk on Dwarkanath Tagore, the grandfather of Rabindranath Tagore, presented by Mr Sumit Mitra to a packed Centre. We were also delighted to have Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya Kt.…

  • Mindful Education

    Nuala Dalton is one of the researchers who has been working with the Tagore Centre UK for several months. She has been focusing particularly on Tagore’s ideas on education and has been applying them to her own experience as a schoolteacher. Here she outlines some of the concerns she has been grappling with and reflects on the…

  • Words, Listening, Waiting

    Here are three new pieces of writing by one of the Tagore Centre resident artists, Nuala Dalton. Her empathetic responses to Tagore might give clues to our own creative practice.        

  • The Art of Writing

    A new piece by Aurogeeta Das is in our Features section. A lovely account of the joys of handwriting. Forming Letters, Writing Poems

  • Dancing around Tagore

    By Fiona Harvey 18th September 2014 As I sit down to write this next part of my exploration, I am distracted by the thought that it is Referendum Day in Scotland. Will we live in a different country tomorrow ? And it reminds me of all the many separations and mergings of nations in other parts…

  • The Many Meanings of Tagore’s Bird Leitmotif

    by Aurogeeta Das In the second part of my exploration of Tagore’s birds, I would like to first pick up some of the recurring themes that I saw emerging in his poetry, for example the ephemerality of life as hinted at in the following verse from Stray Birds: I. Stray birds of summer come to my…

  • Fiona Harvey at the Tagore Centre

    So, I have now visited the archive at the Tagore Centre several times. I enjoy the feeling of space and light and quiet here, something to do with the curved expanse of glass making up more than half the wall space, and being above a library. I was interested to discover the breadth of Tagore’s…

  • Of Tagore, Reznikoff and Brevity

    by Aurogeeta Das In my previous post, I used the word ‘aphorism’ to describe Tagore’s poetry in Stray Birds. Before I continue my exploration of Tagore’s exploration of birds in his writing, I feel that this term requires some clarification. After all, an aphorism is not generally understood to be poetic. In the The Jewel…