Name: The Home and the World
Rating: 3.85 (10 reviews)

Rabindranath Tagore

Gennem historien om en krise i Rani Vimala's og Nikhil's ægteskab får læseren indblik i de sociale og politiske brydninger mellem gammelt og nyt i Bengalen i begyndelsen af 1900-tallet

The Home and the World

When Bimala's husband, Nikhil - a wealthy yet enlightened and charitable landowner of a Bengali estate - encourages her to emerge from the traditional female seclusion of purdah, he introduces her to his old friend Sandip. Ruthless and charismatic, Sandip is a radical leader in the nationalist Swadeshi movement, and Bimala is soon caught up by his revolutionary fervour and experiences a profound political awakening. Torn between her duties as a wife and her passion for her cause, her attempts to resolve the conflict between home and the world lead to violence and, ultimately, tragedy. Vividly depicting the clash between old and new, realism and idealism, The Home and the World (1916) is a haunting allegory of India's political turmoil in the early twentieth century.

Anushka Saha

Masterful in the way it entwines the nationalistic narrative with the personal lives of the characters. A sensitive and conscious portrayal.

Ankush Swarnakar

"Purity, they imagined, is only becoming on those on whom fortune had not smiled. It is the moon which has room for stains, not the stars."

Neeti Choudhari

It's interesting to see how Tagore always manages to bring in the political in personal and vice versa. His characters, not always rigid, learn and evolve in the same say he seems to have!

The Home and the World

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