Split: A Life

Nasrin, Taslima

CHAKRABORTY, MAHARGHYA

Religion & Spirituality

India Penguin

<p>When Dwarakanath Tagore, the entrepreneur hailed as India's first "bourgeois", died on 1 August 1846, Jorasanko found itself rattled by a series of upheavals. In each of these episodes, the chief player was his son - and Rabindranath Tagore's father - Debendranath Tagore. He was a socialreformer who founded the Brahmo Dharma. Yet, despite his deeply spiritual nature, he dabbled in crass materialistic matters. Drawing upon Debendranath's opposing sentiments, Tagores Before Tagore narrates a historical period crucial to the making of indigenous modernity.Scripted at the insistence of the famed filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh, this screenplay, based on true events, chronicles the tumultuous happenings that shook Jorasanko between September 1846 and June 1860, following Dwarakanath's sudden death. Tales of bankruptcy, litigations, deceit, and domesticsquabbles abound; and through these tales emerges a rich cultural history of nineteenth-century Bengal.</p>

TAGORES BEFORE TAGORE: A SCREENPLAY

Literature & Fiction

BANDYOPADHYAY, SIBAJI

Dramas & Plays

Oxford University Press

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