Confluence of Minds

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About the Book: 

The late nineteenth and early twentieth century had witnessed the flowering of a Renaissance in Bengal and India with a vibrant connection with the West. The intellectual exchanges between Rabindranath Tagore and Patrick Geddes was part of this exchange. While both Tagore and Geddes were engaged with experimentations in education and the environment, they sought to radiate these experiments into their communities and beyond. Both shared a sense of globality and sought a free movement of ideas across borders. Geddes was more of a polemical writer, while Rabindranath created a body of poetry and drama that could sensitize the audience to these issues.

This book is a collection of some of the most relevant writings of the two thinkers where they reveal the confluence of ideas.

About the Author:

BASHABI FRASER was born in West Bengal in India. Living a multicultural and colourful life, Bashabi divides her life between the two countries she loves most – India and Britain. After living in London, Bashabi returned to India to attend a convent boarding school on the Himalayas where she was threatened with expulsion after breaking all possible rules! Happily this threat never came to fruition and with a PhD in English Literature, she is now an associate lecturer in English Literature for the Open University and a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies at Edinburgh University. She travels widely working as a poet, attending councils and conferences around the world and has written for many publications, has two collections of poems in print and has been included in a number of anthologies. Bashabi has also written children’s stories and is writing a shadow puppet play and a book on the Bengal Partition and is a classical Indian dancer and choreographer. She now lives in Edinburgh with her husband and daughter.