Tagore’s Vision of a Transformed Society
Soma Mondal, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Ramananda College [Abstract: Tagore had an immense love for humanity. Relationship and love were the keywords in his philosophy of life. If Nationalism implies a political organization with its limitations of fixed boundaries, including maps and the mind’s constraints, Tagore envisioned a society and a world free from boundaries and the narrowness of mind. Tagore says that the abstract concept Nation dehumanizes Man, and turns him into a machine, making him forget the higher idles of humanity. Tagore gives more importance to the heart and the relationship between human beings than a heap of things or systems and policies. In Rabindranath’s views the only goal of human life is to offer freedom and be free, that freedom which guides our life. Rabindranath’s lecture, essays and addresses, thus, reveal his vision of the supreme man who will attain spiritual heights, overcoming all the differences. In the present age, when Read More …