Bridging East and West: Rabindranath Tagore and Romain Rolland Correspondence (1919-1940)

The amazing inter-cultural correspondence (1919-1940) between two cultural icons of the twentieth century, Nobel laureates from the East and the West: the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) and the French novelist, playwright, and biographer, Romain Rolland (1866-1944), has remained undiscovered for far too long.

This work brings together, for the first time in English, these letters and telegrams that are among the finest exchanges of thought between the East and the West, and scri...