Fabien Chartier is a former French teacher at St. Stephen’s College and Delhi University, now teaching English and intercultural management at the University of Rennes (Brittany, France).
He wrote a Ph-D thesis on Rabindranath Tagore’s reception in Great Britain and France in 2000 and is the co-founder and vice-President of SARI (the French Society of Activities and Research about India). In 2020, he edited, co-prefaced and annotated a 1632-page book on Tagore’s life and works published by Quarto-Gallimard, the first comprehensive study in French dedicated to this eminent cosmopolitan figure.
Not always in tune with his era or his contemporaries, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a multi-talented intellectual (composer, singer, poet, novelist, playwright, actor, essayist, painter) and the first non-Westerner to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913). He believed the elevation of peoples can only be achieved through the development of knowledge and art, and education in harmony with Nature. Oriented towards the future and youth, Tagore, a universal artist and renowned educator, embodied India’s ‘Great Sentinel’. A contemporary of Mahatma Gandhi and Subhas Chandra Bose, he was called a revelation for W. B. Yeats and André Gide, a source of inspiration for Jawaharlal Nehru and Romain Rolland, and has composed two national anthems for India.
Fabien Chartier stands as the academic reference in France regarding his life, work and philosophy.
PROGRAM
Book
Rabindranath Tagore, Œuvres
When
May 2024
Where
Kolkata, Pondicherry
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