Having been born and brought up in Kolkata, the name, works, and plaster-of-Paris busts of the great Tagore have become an ingrained element of Bengali collective memory and identity. Moreover, we are no strangers to the fact that his songs were selected for both the Indian and Bangladeshi national anthems, tying his aesthetic to that of national pride. Now clearly it is in this ambivalence between, `Tagore the patriot` who brings Indian rhythms, scenes, and fantasies to the world, and `Tagore the internationalist` that brings a vision of a future world to India, that we might understand why he remains so profound.

Yes, the polymath Tagore left his mark in every sphere of life. Be it romanticism, culture, politics, or nationalism, it is impractical to find any topic under the sky that remained untouched by him.