From Home to Global Nest: Rabindranath Tagore's Maturing Sense of Female Education

Santiniketan to Smithsonian: A Tribute to Tagore
Kathleen M. O'Connell
Professor, University of Toronto, Canada

Kathleen M. O'Connell teaches courses on South Asian culture at New College, University of Toronto. She is especially interested in the portrayal of women in Tagore's fictional works, not simply from a socio-historical perspective but also as "a methodology to understand the development and transformation of the female psyche." She explored this theme in her paper "Emergence of the 'New' Woman in the Works of Rabindranath Tagore," published by the University of Toronto. Her other writings include the books Rabindranath Tagore: Claiming a Cultural Icon and Rabindranath Tagore: The Poet as Educator.

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This program was made possible by GENEROUS FINANCIAL AND IN-KIND support from Esha and Anandarup Ray.

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Dr. Rita and Mr. A.J. Gupta, Saswati and Asok Motayed, Candace J. and Suri Sastri

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Meera and Debdas Ghosal, Amitava and Sanghamitra Dutta, Arun and Ibhana Mukherjee, Rajiv and Neena Shenoy (ORCA TV), Sona Varma and Sujoy Bose, Rina and Subhash Saha, Supriya and Devbrat Dutt, Anand A. Devadas

SPECIAL THANKS TO
The Embassy of India, The Indian Council for Cultural Relations

ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Samia Ahmed, Monali Chowdhurie-Aziz, Rama Deva, Manjulika and Hiten Ghosh, Sukanya Mukherji, Esha and Anandarup Ray, Hitabrata Roy, Krishna Roy

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Originally aired: Saturday, May 29, 2011