ON the twenty-ninth of this month Romain Rolland will be sixty years old. His life has been a Symphony Eroica. When has forerunner been worse hated or better loved? It is with his life as with his art ...
“A Faithful and Conscientious Sentry” is how Romain Rolland described his role in Tagore’s controversial trip to Italy in 1926. Indeed, the correspondence between two of the world’s pacifist thinkers ...
. . . political movements rest not so much on rational attitudes as on the fantasies, images, words and archetypes that come together to make up this or that political kitsch. —Milan Kundera, The ...
IN the spring of 1919, when the long horror of World War began to dissipate, it chanced that I was living in a chamber of an old brick house on Beacon Hill still occupied by a family in its third ...
Before writing Declaration of the Independence of the Mind, Romain Rolland was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915 'as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the ...
'Staliner Divan' by Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee (Image: New Bharat Sahitya Kutir) 'Staliner Divan' by Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee (Image: New Bharat Sahitya Kutir) 'Staliner Divan' by Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee ...
The Romain Rolland Book Prize will be awarded every year for the best translation of a French title into any Indian language, including English. The French Institute in India on December 21 announced ...
Romain Rolland, famous French novelist and Nobel Prize winner of 1915, has written a scathing denunciation of anti-Jewish persecution in Germany coupled with a plea to the Jews to emulate their ...
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