Das Heim Und Die Welt
1920
Set during the height of India's Swadeshi movement, this novel traces the awakening of Bimala, a young wife confined to the private world of her husband's estate, as she confronts the competing demands of tradition and revolution. When Nikhilesh's magnetic friend Sandip arrives, spouting fiery nationalist rhetoric, Bimala finds herself caught between her husband's quiet conviction that true freedom begins with inner liberation and the intoxicating possibility of meaningful action in the world beyond her home. Tagore, writing in the aftermath of his own confrontation with political violence, offers no easy answers: Bimala's emergence into public life brings neither simple triumph nor tragedy, but something more unsettling, the recognition that every choice carries its own particular cost. The novel's power lies in its refusal to idealize either domestic peace or revolutionary fervor, instead illuminating how the personal is always, inevitably political, and how the price of stepping into the world is the loss of the world one knew.
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“I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.””
— Rabindranath Tagore
“for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.””
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.””
— Rabindranath Tagore
“that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.””
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.””
— Rabindranath Tagore
“to tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country””
— Rabindranath Tagore
“If one had to fill in, little by little, the gap between day and night, it would take an eternity to do it. But the sun rises and the darkness is dispelled- a moment is sufficient to overcome an infinite distance.””
— Rabindranath Tagore
“The greedy man who is fond of his fish stew has no compunction in cutting up the fish according to his need. But the man who loves the fish wants to enjoy it in the water; and if that is impossible he waits on the bank; and even if he comes back home without a sight of it he has the consolation of knowing that the fish is all right. Perfect gain is the best of all; but if that is impossible, then the next best gain is perfect losing.””
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a waste of Nature's energy.””
— Rabindranath Tagore
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