• UW LIbraries
• South Asia Studies

Donald Fels, author and writer, will talk about Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's (1861-1941) visit to Seattle a century ago and what the visit might have meant then and now.
Tagore, a literary figure, was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British policies in India.
Tagore came to Seattle as an unknown.How did he attempt to bridge the divide between Calcutta (Kolkata) and Seattle, and what does that space look like now?

• Organized by Deepa Banerjee, South Asia Studies Librarian
• In conjunction with the exhibit, Envisaging South Asia: Images, Art and Scholarship  on display in Allen Library North, through October 31, 2016