Agani Parv Shantiniketan(अग्नि पर्व शान्तिनिकेतन) is the Hindi translation of a book written by a Hungarian author named ROZSA who lived in India between 1929 and 1932. The book is in the form of a diary which she wrote when she had lived with her husband in Shantiniketan during those years.
The husband had been working there on an assignment of teaching and she, as someone coming from a European country, was observing the environment and activities of Shantiniketan and India with wonder and jotting down the observations in the pages of her diary. She had also travelled the other parts of India like Jammu & Kashmir etc. during that period.
This was the period when the Freedom Movement in India was at its peak. Gandhi had led Salt satyagraha while Nehru was emerging as a national leader. Gandhi and Ravindranath were in regular touch. They also had their differences on various issues of national & international importance. It was also the time when literary and cultural resurgence was taking a concrete shape in Bengal with Ravindranath's Shantiniketan in the driving seat.
The book touches upon all these issues and activities and I am looking forward to reading it. It can also serve as a good source of history. I must thank Prof. Namvar Singh, an eminent critic of Hindi literature, who introduced this to me through his regular Book Review programme that comes on DD every Monday morning.
The husband had been working there on an assignment of teaching and she, as someone coming from a European country, was observing the environment and activities of Shantiniketan and India with wonder and jotting down the observations in the pages of her diary. She had also travelled the other parts of India like Jammu & Kashmir etc. during that period.
This was the period when the Freedom Movement in India was at its peak. Gandhi had led Salt satyagraha while Nehru was emerging as a national leader. Gandhi and Ravindranath were in regular touch. They also had their differences on various issues of national & international importance. It was also the time when literary and cultural resurgence was taking a concrete shape in Bengal with Ravindranath's Shantiniketan in the driving seat.
The book touches upon all these issues and activities and I am looking forward to reading it. It can also serve as a good source of history. I must thank Prof. Namvar Singh, an eminent critic of Hindi literature, who introduced this to me through his regular Book Review programme that comes on DD every Monday morning.
