Review: Young Tagore – The Makings of a Genius
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Early in his study of the young Rabindranath Tagore, Sudhir Kakar quotes Rilke on Rodin: “It’s like holding a cup beneath a waterfall.” The waterfall is an unconsciously apposite image, given the way in which the overflowing spring is used by Tagore himself to represent an epiphanic moment in his early adulthood, when he composed the poem The Fountain Awakes (Nirjharer Swapnabhanga).
