Mihir Bhattacharya

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Mihir Bhattacharya taught English Literature and Film Studies at Jadavpur University and was a visiting faculty at various educational institutions in Australia, Bangladesh, France and India. He has published numerous scholarly papers in Bangla and English. He has also directed documentaries and play

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The Poet as a Public Intellectual: Rabindranath Tagore and the Dark Times

On 17 February, 1940, Rabindranath Tagore was at Shantiniketan, “the Abode of Peace” some distance away from Kolkata, where he had built an institute of universal learning (Visva-Bharati) which shunned the British model of a University. This was his permanent shelter in his old days, when he couldn’t move around as much as he used to in his globe-trotting years, but could be active with his writing and teaching and directing affairs.

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