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Before the World Changed: Reading Tagore's Prescient 1941 Essay
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Before the World Changed: Reading Tagore's Prescient 1941 Essay

Rabindranath Tagore, Crisis in Civilization, audio reading

In September 1941, as the Germany invaded Russia, the British Empire teetered on collapse, and the USA had yet to enter World War Two, the 1913 Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore penned his final essay from his home in Bengal. "The Crisis in Civilization" was more than a farewell – it was a profound meditation on the destructiveness of Western civiliza…

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