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Elective English—III

Notes loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise: (din something into) instil information into (someone)
by constant repetition: make a din; on all sides shutting him out from beyond, come to him, his
lord of silence, with his peace and rest. Before answering anybody’s prayer God keeps His
silence for reasons unknown. Then at the moment that we least expect, things start moving in a
mighty way that will start transforming all areas in our lives and around us. When his beggarly
heart, meagre and ungenerous: poverty-stricken, sits crouched. Adopt a position where the
knees are bent and the upper body is brought forward and down: (crouch over) bend over to be
close to a crouching stance or posture, shut up in a corner, break open the door, his king, and
come with the ceremony of a king. When desire blinds the mind with delusion; an idiosyncratic
belief or impression that is not in accordance with a generally accepted reality: the action of
deluding or being deluded; and dust, God–the Supreme Ultimate–He is the holy one, He is
wakeful, come with His light and His thunder. These are the signs that God will reply in a
mighty way.

Self Assessment

Choose the correct answer:
1. For his poem Geetanjali, which literary award did Tagore win?
(a) Nobel Prize for Literature (b) Man Booker Prize
(c) Pulitzer Award
2. In 1915, the British Crown gave Tagore a knighthood. However, a heinous incident made
him return his knighthood. Which incident was it?
(a) World War I (b) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
(c) Quit India Movement

3. The national anthem of yet another of India’s neighbours is deeply influenced by Tagore’s
music. Which country is it?
(a) Sri Lanka (b) Nepal

(c) Pakistan
4. There is a style of singing which is now named after Tagore. What is it called?
(a) Khayaal Gaayaki (b) Thumri

(c) Rabindra Sangeet
10.12 Summary

Rabindranath Thakur, anglicised to Tagore sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath
who reshaped his region’s literature and music.

Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic
strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political
and personal.

Tagore was a prolific composer with 2,230 songs to his credit. His songs are known as
rabindrasangit (“Tagore Song”), which merges fluidly into his literature, most of which—
poems or parts of novels, stories, or plays alike—were lyricised.
Tagore influenced sitar maestro Vilayat Khan and sarodiyas Buddhadev Dasgupta and
Amjad Ali Khan.

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