Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Sen on Tagore

On the occasion of India's independence day, I thought it would be appropriate to think about the person who has given us our national anthem. Let us set aside the debate about the intent and import of the song and get a glimplse of his 'Antarangam' through the analysis of Amartya Sen.
Interestingly as Sen points out Tagore may well be the only person to have penned the national anthems of two different countries. Read on.............

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/articles/sen/

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