“In India there is no common birthright"
#RabindranathTagore 's eviscerating takedown of Nationalism on @IndianHistory_C had addressed CAA and the economic and social crises we are in the midst of before their time
Read it for it is the compass we need
indianhistorycollective.com/on-nationalism…
#RabindranathTagore 's eviscerating takedown of Nationalism on @IndianHistory_C had addressed CAA and the economic and social crises we are in the midst of before their time
Read it for it is the compass we need
indianhistorycollective.com/on-nationalism…
“Nationalism is a great menace..It is the particular thing which for years has been at the bottom of India’s troubles.”
It wasnt easy for Tagore to write these words at a time when the subcontinent was in the throes of an exacting and passionate freedom struggle but he knew..
It wasnt easy for Tagore to write these words at a time when the subcontinent was in the throes of an exacting and passionate freedom struggle but he knew..
"India is many countries packed in one geographical receptacle”
“It is just the opposite of what Europe truly is, namely one country made into many”
If only policy makers and consent manufacturers cd remember #Tagore's words
This essay is full of gems
indianhistorycollective.com/on-nationalism…
“It is just the opposite of what Europe truly is, namely one country made into many”
If only policy makers and consent manufacturers cd remember #Tagore's words
This essay is full of gems
indianhistorycollective.com/on-nationalism…
"The narrowness of sympathy which makes it possible for us to impose upon a considerable portion of humanity the galling yoke of inferiority will assert itself in our politics in creating tyranny of injustice"
#Tagore's indictment of our complicity in the migrant workers' plight
#Tagore's indictment of our complicity in the migrant workers' plight
Tagore on the blindness of India's educated elite wrt our social needs.
They are like “a man whose legs have become shrivelled and useless”....trying to delude himself that these limbs have grown still because they have attained their ultimate salvation."
Sharp AF.
They are like “a man whose legs have become shrivelled and useless”....trying to delude himself that these limbs have grown still because they have attained their ultimate salvation."
Sharp AF.
And finally, this haunting poem by #Tagore
THE SUNSET OF THE CENTURY
(Written in Bengali on the last day of last century)
indianhistorycollective.com/on-nationalism…
THE SUNSET OF THE CENTURY
(Written in Bengali on the last day of last century)
indianhistorycollective.com/on-nationalism…
