[Reader-list] [Announcements] Film @ Sarai: "Rabindranath Tagore": Directed by Satyajit Ray, introduced by Ramin Jehanbegloo

[Aarti Sethi]

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Film @ Sarai: February – March 2007
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Rabindranath Tagore
Satyajit Ray
1961, India. Documentary, 54 min, B/W
Producer: Films Division, Govt. of India
4:30 P.M., Friday 2 February 2007
Seminar Room, Sarai-CSDS

The film will be introduced by Prof. Ramin Jehanbegloo, Rajni Kothari  
Professor of Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing  
Societies, Delhi


The documentary details the life and work of Rabindranath Tagore  
(1861-1941). The documentary was made to celebrate Tagore’s birth  
centenary in May 1961. Ray was conscious that he was making an  
official portrait of India’s celebrated poet and hence the film does  
not include any controversial aspects of Tagore’s life. However, it  
is far from being a propaganda film. The film comprises dramatized  
episodes from the poet’s life and archived images and documents.


[Ramin Jahanbegloo was born in Tehran and studied at the Sorbonne  
University, Paris. He is currently the Rajni Kothari Professor of  
Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in  
Delhi. Prior to this he was a post-doc at Harvard University and then  
headed the department for contemporary studies at the Cultural  
Research Bureau, Iran. Among his twenty books in English, French and  
Persian are Conversations with Isaiah Berlin (Phoenix, 2000), and (as  
editor) Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity (Lexington Books, 2004).

His intellectual work has featured, among other elements, a close  
engagement with the life and work of Mohandas Gandhi and Rabindranath  
Tagore.]

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