Podcast: It Is Wrong to Link Rabindranath Tagore With Narrow Nationalism, as Is Being Done Now
In conversation with political scientist Sibaji Pratim Basu.
Sidharth Bhatia and Sibaji Pratim Basu.
Video19/Jan/2021
With the assembly elections in West Bengal later this year, all parties are working full time to win over the electorate. Trinamool Congress, the incumbent in power, is facing a challenge from not just the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Congress but also an aggressive Bharatiya Janata Party.
The BJP has tried to appropriate Rabindranath Tagore, who is a revered icon for the Bengalis. The party has tried to show him as a nationalist, using some of his writings selectively.