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symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Ananya Vajpeyi, Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Boston

• TRANSFORMATIONS
  Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic and musician; Professor of Contemporary Literature, University of East Anglia, Norwich

• OF DESIRE AND DISSENSUS
  Brinda Bose, Associate Professor of English, University of Delhi

• BHARATI ON TAGORE
  A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai

• THE UNIVERSAL IS PERSONAL
  William Radice, translator and critic of Tagore and other Bengali literature; also lectures in Bengali at SOAS, University of London

• ON THE TAGORE TRAIL
  Sumana Roy, Department of Humanities, Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, lives in the Chicken's Neck, Siliguri

• TAGORE, KABIR AND UNDERHILL
  Peter Friedlander, Senior Lecturer in Hindi and Buddhist Studies, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne

• TAGORE AS THE INTIMATE 'OTHER'
  Sudeep Sen, poet, author and editorial director, Aark Arts, Delhi

• THE RELEVANCE OF TAGORE'S MUSIC TODAY
  Reba Som, Director, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, Kolkata

• THE UNTIMELY TAGORE
  Prathama Banerjee, historian, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

• THE LAST TESTAMENT
  Rudrangshu Mukherjee, historian; Editor, Editorial Pages, 'The Telegraph', Kolkata

• DRENCHING THE DUST
  Ruchir Joshi, writer and filmmaker, Calcutta

• THE RUSTLE OF LANGUAGE
  Rosinka Chaudhuri, Fellow, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

• DRISHTIDAAN: THE GIFT OF VISION
  Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Arunava Sinha, who translates classic and contemporary Bengali fiction, Delhi

• DISCOVERING TAGORE: SOME UNPUBLISHED POEMS
  Nilanjan Banerjee, poet, painter, curator and exhibition designer; currently Special Officer, Rabindra-Bhavana, Santiniketan

• SCATTER AND FLOW: SELECTIONS FROM CHHINNAPATRA
  Aveek Sen, Senior Assistant Editor (editorial pages), 'The Telegraph', Kolkata

• TRAVELS TO THE WEST
  Somdatta Mandal, Professor of English, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Antara Datta and Salil Tripathi

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