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Rare Rabindranath photographs on display in Delhi

Kavita, New Delhi
Tagore virtually springs to life at a photography exhibition, "Rabindranath Tagore: 1861-1941: His Life and Work" that unfolds the fascinating life story of the Nobel Laureate. Through the 45 images at the India International Centre's art gallery, one gets a good sense of the wonder that was Tagore. There are the conventional shots of his Joransko mansion where Tagore was born, his stately Shantinitketan home and the sprawling Shelidah family estate. But there's more: a 17-year-old Tagore sings to his father in an illustration by Gaganendranath Tagore. His striking wife Mrinalini poses for a photograph with their sprightly daughters Bela and Renuka, while their son Rathi curiously peeps into the camera.
The exhibition has been conceptualised and curated by Dr Lima Dasgupta, an academic and author who has published several books on Tagore. Dasgupta offers a "nuanced and subtle exhibition that portrays Tagore's full and vast life of 80 years through photographs and text." Dasgupta, who taught at Tagore's Visva- Bharati University through 1973-1983, says she has laid emphasis on Tagore's immense and unique education models -Santiniketan School, Sriniketan Institute of Rural Construction and Visva- Bharati University.
The reason for this slant, says Dasgupta, is because Tagore is better known as a great poet and composer rather than an educa-
tionist far ahead of his times. "How many know that Santiniketan was established by Tagore's father as a retreat for himself? So much is missing factually about Tagore and through these photographs and texts the layman can make a pretty good connect with Tagore's full creative life."
For instance, there are clear photographs of the Santiniketan school dormitories, of Tagore with LK Elmhirst, an agricultural scientist who led Sriniketan Institute of Rural Reconstruction, a view of its clinic, a music class at Visva Bharati.
Tagore the traveler is another fascinating aspect of the show. So you have him lecturing in Shanghai (1924) at Borobudur, Jogjakarta (1927), on a boat to Germany (1921) and even in a Bedouin camp in Iraq (1932).
Tagore's famous doodles are also on display. The text explains that Tagore had a flair for drawing and where normally one would cross out a word or sentence on a piece of writing, Tagore turned them into grotesque creatures such as doodles from the "Purabi" collection.
Interspersed with the exhibition is rich text that explains Tagore's wo rid view.
In founding his Visva Bharati international university, Tagore wanted to build up a relationship with the world, to give and to receive. He thus wrote to G.E Andrews, "We do not want school-masters from the West but fellow-workers in the pursuit of truth."