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3 Tagore Principles on Freedom, Work, and Creativity Every Creative Person Needs

Principle 1: Freedom Is Not the Absence of Structure, It Is Choosing Your OwnTagore resigned from his formal schooling at fourteen because the classroom felt like a cage. He didn't stop learning. He read Sanskrit, Bengali poetry, and Western literature on his own terms, and eventually founded Visva-Bharati at Santiniketan,…

Times Life · Jul 7

Tagore's Ideas on Education That India's Schooling System Has Still Refused to Learn

The School He Built to Prove a PointIn 1901, Tagore opened Patha Bhavana in Santiniketan with five students and no walls. Classes were held outdoors, under the shade of trees, because he believed that separating a child from nature was the first act of educational violence. He had hated his…

Times Life · Jul 7

5 Lessons From Tagore on Creativity, Solitude, and Modern Wisdom India Forgot to Teach

Solitude Is Not Wasted TimeTagore spent years at Santiniketan deliberately removing himself from Calcutta's social machinery. He wrote in "Gitanjali" of the mind that finds its own company sufficient, not as a spiritual boast, but as a practical observation about where real thinking happens. The lesson most Indians absorb growing…

Times Life · Jul 6

Why Bengali vlogger Roddur Roy’s arrest for ‘abusing’ Mamata has kicked up a storm

Controversial Bengali vlogger Roddur Roy was arrested on Tuesday for making “derogatory” remarks about West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, a Lok Sabha MP and all-India general secretary of the Trinamool Congress.

Newslaundry · Jun 9, 2022