After his path-breaking translation of Tagore’s poems in 1985, Radice evolved into an ambassador of the poet in the Western world. He also translated Tagore’s short stories and brief poems, and finally translated Gitanjali afresh, restoring Tagore’s original English manuscript. W.B. Yeats had, in his attempt to edit them, seriously tampered with many Gitanjali poems.

From 2011 to 2013, when the poet’s 150th birth anniversary was celebrated, Radice went from city to city in Asia, Europe and North America to advocate Rabindranath’s importance as a poet and what he means to him.

Radice, himself a recognised poet and an erudite scholar, delved into the deeper meaning of Tagore’s poems and songs, gauged his emotions and hidden thoughts and discussed his ideas on education and the environment with an insight probably no other Westerner has. This book presents a comprehensive collection of lectures and essays Radice wrote during those festival years.