Bhattacharyya, Medha. Rabindranath Tagore’s Śāntiniketan Essays: Religion, Spirituality and Philosophy. London & New York: Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2020. ISBN 9780367321024

 

Śāntiniketan Essays: Religion, Spirituality and Philosophy (2020)

 

Śāntiniketan Essays: Religion, Spirituality and Philosophy

 

Rabindranath Tagore's Śāntiniketan Essays: Religion, Spirituality and Philosophy

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Some Amazing Quotations and their Relevance

Quote 1: It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

--My Institute is an example of unity in diversity not just in terms of different cultural backgrounds of the teachers and students, but here every innovative thought is appreciated and nurtured. Difference is accepted. Hence, there is a steady growth in the intellectual fervour of the student community in this Institute.

Quote 2: It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

--Students are given the opportunity to turn information into knowledge through hands-on experiences in the form of tech fest projects, internships, presenting papers in various national and international seminars and conferences.

The Humanities’ PowerPoint Presentation project brings forth the ability of the students to work in groups, prepare innovative presentation of their choice, take group decisions, build confidence, develop their English speaking skills and their personalities.

Quote 3: Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

--These are the words of the learned U.S. educator and writer Laurence J. Peter where he satirizes the basic concept of education. In my Institute the students are rather encouraged to question whatever they are taught from books or otherwise and not accept anything passively. They are motivated to analyse the information and only then acquire it as knowledge and implement it. This assists in the overall development of the student.

Just for you

7:52 pm

I have feelings for you

More intense

Than I ever felt

For anyone in this lifetime

Or ever would.

Don’t ask for logic

As this is beyond it.

Love does not have reason

If it does

‘tis not love

But lust,

for money,

 for beauty

for fame.

I need none of it
in lieu of love.

I have all

And seen the

Transience of them all

It is that deeper feeling I’m after,

That will not wither with time,

Does not have the ebb and flow

Of the tides,

That which always withstands the

Test of time.

When life is at its prime

Let’s journey together

To seek that permanence

There’ll be change of weather

But that change is not for us

Change of nature

But that change is not for us

In our finite love

For each other

Let us

Seek and find

That Infinite.

Come let’s

Start the journey

Let us not apprehend disaster

We are strong enough to

Surmount

Whatever befalls us

Provided we are together.

The anthology which includes my poem 'Tale of a Parrot'.