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The Home and the World

Written by: Rabindranath Tagore
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
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Audie-nominated narrator Deepti Gupta shares a classic love story set among the fires of India's struggle for independence. Bimala is torn between her commitment to her husband, Nikhil, who holds Western beliefs, and the radical Sandip, a leader of the Swadeshi movement under the British Raj. Bimala finds herself asking what freedom truly means for herself and for her country.

Author, poet, and Nobel laureate Sir Rabindranath Tagore sets the story on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908. It is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. Bimala's attempts to resolve the irreconcilable - pressures of home and the world - reflect the conflict in India itself. The tragic outcome foreshadows the unrest that accompanied Partition in 1947.

Public Domain (P)2020 Spoken Realms Classics Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction World Literature
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Called “Ghare Baire” in Bengali, this book is a symbolic representation of India’s relationship with herself & her colonisers, told through the relationship of the protagonist Bimala with her husband Nikhil and a friend, Sandeep.

I found the book very poignant - capturing the internal conflict of identity that I & millions of other Indians even today experience in our relationship with our country and our place in the world.

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