Songs of Kabir presents the luminous poetry of one of India’s greatest mystic saints—a voice that speaks with startling directness about love, truth, illusion and the divine presence within. Kabir’s verses move beyond religious boundaries, rejecting empty ritual and outward display in favour of a deeply personal experience of God.Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, these songs carry both spiritual intensity and poetic grace. They ask readers to look inward, to question inherited divi...

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

A Bengali landowner encourages his wife out of the women's quarters and into the world, and the world arrives in the person of his friend — a nationalist agitator who wants her jewellery for the cause and rather more besides. Tagore won the Nobel in 1913, the first non-European to do so, and returned his knighthood after Amritsar; this 1916 novel says out loud what the nationalist movement did not want said, and cost him friends for decades.

In Creative Unity, Rabindranath Tagore begins with a searching meditation on what it means to be one self in a world of endless multiplicity. Across essays and lyrical reflections, he argues that the mind longs for unity in knowledge, beauty in creation, and fulfillment in love, and that the deepest truth of life lies not in fragmentation but in harmony. Beauty, courtesy, health, imagination, art, and even social life are shown as expressions of one inner principle, while appetite, utility...

Rabindranath Tagore's intimate letters and diary-like reflections open a window onto his most fertile early years, where poetry, memory, and daily life continually feed one another. In a voice that is playful, self-questioning, and deeply observant, he moves from the fierce beauty of the sea at Bandora and the first stirrings of youth to meditations on creativity, solitude, and the discipline of ordinary duty. Childhood reading, music, homesickness, and dreams of freedom all mingle with hi...

Mashi and Other Stories gathers Rabindranath Tagore's haunting range at its most intimate and unsettling, moving from bedside tenderness to supernatural irony and moral conflict. In the title story, Jotin lies gravely ill while Mashi, the older woman who has become his true caretaker, protects him with quiet devotion as his young wife Mani struggles between household duty and the pull of her father's home. As Jotin faces death, he clings to fragile signs of Mani's love, speaks with serene ...

Fruit-Gathering is a lyrical journey through longing, surrender, and spiritual awakening, tracing a soul's movement from fear and self-protection toward a life offered more fully and freely. In poem after poem, the speaker leaves behind comfort, status, and hollow grandeur to seek a deeper truth in love, suffering, and devotion. Fruit, rivers, stars, flowers, roads, and dawn birds become living signs of the divine, while parables and stories reveal the futility of attachment and the hidden...

Rabindranath Tagore's lyrical one-act drama Chitra begins with a striking legend of identity and desire: the warrior princess of Manipur, raised as a son to preserve her father's line, encounters Arjuna in the forest and is awakened to her own womanhood. Wounded by his distant vow of celibacy, she turns to Madana and Vasanta not for mere romance, but for the power to be truly seen and loved. Granted a year of spring's irresistible beauty, she wins Arjuna's admiration by a lake, yet the enc...

Discover How Tagore’s Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own"Rabindranath Tagore’s philosophical and spiritual thoughts transcend all limits of language, culture, and nationality. In his writings, the poet and mystic takes us on a spiritual quest and gives us a glimpse of the infinite in the midst of the finite, unity at the heart of all diversity, and the Divine in all beings and things of the universe."—from the Preface bySwami Adiswarana...

Six stories which showcase Rabindranath Tagore’s breathtaking range and empathy. The first Asian winner of the Nobel Prize, his work – written in Bengali across the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries – has resonated for generations.In ‘The Hungry Stones’, a traveller is seduced by supernatural visions in a haunted palace, while ‘The Skeleton’ gives voice to the dead in a tale of hidden passion. Tagore’s humanity shines through in ‘The Cabuliwallah’, a mo...

Horrors Next Door: Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore brings together a chilling collection of eight haunting tales where fear doesn’t lurk in distant shadows—but lives right beside you. Translated by Prasun Roy, this collection reveals a darker, lesser-seen side of Rabindranath Tagore, blending psychological depth with eerie storytelling.Step into a world where the ordinary turns unsettling, where familiar spaces hide disturbing secrets, and where human emotions spiral into dark...

Unity in Diversity: One of the central themes of "Creative Unity" is the idea of unity amidst the apparent diversity in the world. Tagore explores the interconnectedness of all things and how they contribute to the underlying unity of existence.Nature and Humanity: Tagore celebrates the beauty and harmony of nature and its profound connection to human life. He emphasizes the need for humans to live in harmony with nature and recognize their deep interdependence with the natural world.Spiri...