Guest Editorial: The Everyday and Other Tagore
By Bhaswati Ghosh
In one of his most powerful poems (Patraput, 15), Tagore declares himself an outcast, one who has renounced the bondage of religion and ritual. He likens himself to Bauls and their search for the man of the heart, a quest to find divinity in humanity, not in external or imagined symbols. This is the other, everyday Tagore – internalized in universes that don’t often feature in scholarly discourses.