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On May 3, 1916, Rabindranath Tagore left Calcutta by ship for Japan. He was 55, his reputation as a sage soaring after he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913 for "his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse". He was about to unsettle Indians and his fans in Japan, with his views on nationalism; he had already ruffled patriotic feathers in America. In 1915 and 1916, readers in Bengal were arguing about the meaning of Ghare Baire (The Home and the World), serialised in the Bengali magazine Sabujpatra a 100 years ago. Today, perhaps more Indians are familiar with ...
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