Tagores we didn't know about

As we prepare to celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, it is sometimes easy to forget that he came from a family bristling...

As we prepare to celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, it is sometimes easy to forget that he came from a family bristling with remarkable people. Chitra Deb's bestseller in Bengali - Thakurbarir Andar Mahal - now available in English reminds us that it wasn't just men in the Tagore family who were accomplished.

Beginning with Rabindranath's great-grandmother Alakasundari - mother of Dwarkanath - the Tagore household in Jorasanko was home to an extraordinary cast of women, both daughters and daughters-in-law. Easily two of the most accomplished women in the family were Jnanadanandini, wife of Rabindranath's elder brother and India's first ICS officer Satyendranath, and Swarnakumari, the poet's sister.

Full report here Times of India