Unsung: a new play reworking Rabindranath Tagore’s Short Story

By Farzana Whitfield|July 30, 2013|Literature, Music, Media and Film Studies, South Asia|0 comments

Unsung is a new play based on the short story Punishment, written by Rabindranath Tagore, the most famous Bengali writer. It has been given a modern interpretation set in London, looking at the lives of 2 married brothers, their relationships with their wives and an innocent meeting that has devastating consequences. It examines the themes of love, sacrifice and family. The play is running from August 30th until 8th September 2013

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South Asia – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 4, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Agriculture and a changing environment in Northeastern India / editor, Sumi Krishna. The making of Bihar and Biharis : colonialism, politics and culture in modern India, c. 1870-1912 / Narendra Jha. The Tibetan world of the Indian Himalayas : an ethnography of the ‘garden of Dakini’ / Tanase Jiro. Filming fiction : Tagore, Premchand, and Ray / edited by M. Asaduddin and Anuradha Ghosh. The underside of things : India

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