OCLC : 1515016622 "The publication of a volume of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore's writings, music, art and thought on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary is a most fitting way to pay homage to this yugpurush - someone who comes along rarely and defines an entire age. Though a towering artistic genius of the world at large, Tagore had a special relationship with Sri Lanka, which he visited thrice and where his appreciation of local art traditions played a catalytic role in their revival."

"This volume on Tagore, mostly authored by Sri Lankan writers, is indeed a substantiation of Tagore's impact on the sensibilities of the people of this part of the world by making them attentive to the mysterious resonances of poetic words and musical sounds, meanings of dramatic movements and subtleties of lines and colours. The high respect accorded to Tagore in Sri Lanka is a measure of his abiding legacy to the region as a whole and reinforces a common cultural space shared by the subcontinent. These writings also bring out the unifying role of culture, which indeed is a true representation of Tagore's philosophy of the oneness of mankind."