The Santali translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Raktakarabi by Dr. Boro Baski was published by the Sahitya Akademi (www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in) in 2016.
by Dr. Boro Baski (Sahitya Akademi)
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“The Jinn of that dead wealth we invoke. If we can enslave him the whole world lies at our feet.“ – Professor to Nandini (the protagonist puzzled to “see a whole city thrusting its head underground, groping with both hands in the dark”) in the 1925 edition of Red Oleanders (p. 6) | Read or download the full English text for free via Archive.org >>
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Red Oleanders, a powerful and moving play, is the story of Nandini, a girl who recognises no social barriers and taboos and who disregards them in her search for happiness. Nandini is one of those individuals who bring out the best in human nature. Entering a town where men are enslaved to mine gold, she makes them aware of their bondage and creates in them a desire to be free.
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About the play: Red Oleanders (Raktakarabi)
Kathleen M. O’Connell [excerpt from the review of the English translation titled “Red Oleanders” by Nupur Gangopadhyay Lahiri] | Read the full review here >>
Red Oleanders (Raktakarabi) is one of the more than sixty plays, dance dramas and dramatic sketches by Asia’s first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The play, written in 1923-24, was begun during a visit to Shillong, Assam, and inspired by the image of a red oleander plant crushed by pieces of discarded iron that Tagore had come across while walking. […]
The first English version Red Oleanders was done by Tagore himself (with perhaps some assistance from Kshitish Chandra Sen) and published by Macmillan, London, in 1925. The reviews that followed were less than enthusiastic with criticism of obscurantism. Tagore argued that the play’s theme involving unscrupulous capitalism, environmental exploitation and the importance of human relationships was not an obscure one. […]
In 1987, Ananda Lal published a translation of three plays by Tagore, including Red Oleanders, which was a welcome addition to making Tagore’s works accessible in English. Lal’s work represented a faithful recreation of the original work, and it also included pertinent scholarship on the history and context of the plays. His translation of Red Oleanders was finally staged in 2006 at Camden Peoples Theatre in England. […]
Uma Dasgupta [excerpt from the review of the English translation titled “Red Oleanders” by Nupur Gangopadhyay Lahiri] | Read the full review here >>
Tagore wanted the play to be an expression of that truth “to which we are so accustomed that we have forgotten all about it”. He did not construe it to be a sermon or a moral. Simply put, it is a play about evil and good, working side by side, about greed and human sympathy, about that which separates fellow beings and that which keeps us together.
Source: “Red Oleanders by Tagore (tr. by Nupur Gangopadhayy Lahiri)–two reviews by Kathleen M. O’Connell, and Uma Dasgupta
Address: http://www.parabaas.com/rabindranath/articles/brRedOleanders.html
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by Dr. Boro Baski (Asiatic Society)
Release of Rabindranath Tagore’s Vidyasagar-Charit in Santali
Kolkata Book Fair, 2 February 2020
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Dr. Boro Baski works for the community-based organisation Ghosaldanga Adibasi Seva Sangha in West Bengal. The NGO is supported by the German NGO Freundeskreis Ghosaldanga und Bishnubati. He was the first person from his village to go to college as well as the first to earn a PhD (in social work) at Viswa-Bharati. This university was founded by Rabindranath Tagore to foster integrated rural development with respect for cultural diversity. The cooperation he inspired helps local communities to improve agriculture, economical and environmental conditions locally, besides facilitating education and health care based on modern science.
He authored Santali translations of two major works by Rabindranath Tagore, the essay “Vidyasagar-Charit” and the drama Raktakarabi (English “Red Oleanders”), jointly published by the Asiatic Society & Sahitya Akademi (India’s National Academy of Letters) in 2020.
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