Tagore translated some of his own poems into English and recited them at the home of Rothenstein. I remember a program in DD7 where a Rabindrik scholar said that William Butler Yeats felt that Tagore’s English was not strong enough and that the poems he felt were much better than their current translation as made by Tagore (i.e. much of the original quality was being lost in translation). Which is why the final translations were worked on extensively by Yeats himself though he never explicitly claimed credit for them and merely wrote the introduction to Gitanjali. This is the version I have heard from multiple sources and again this is as far as I know (I am no scholar myself) true.

Here is a very small “difference of opinion” regarding the issue

I attended your quiz on Saturday. There is a confusion in my mind. I always knew that Rabindranath Tagore himself translated the Gitanjali into English.
http://www.unnayannews.net/gitanjali/

I also didn’t get the answer you said to that. Could you give me the name of the translator?

Dwaipayan

The Busch campus is a bit far from the train station to walk to. there are buses running within the campus though the summer schedule buses are a bit infrequent.
. The Summer ‘A’ bus goes from College Ave campus to Busch campus. The summer L goes to Busch too but it takes a longer route via the Livingston campus. The good thing about it is that the L bus goes through the Train station bus stop. from 5:30 onwards there’ll only be the ‘all campus bus’. check the links below for bus schedules and route descriptions.

you can get the ‘A’ bus from scott hall. alternatively you can cross George street right next to J&J to get the ‘A’ bus but it goes to the College ave Rutgers student center first and then goes to Busch.
to get to Scott hall from the train station:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=103518958633963899357.00046a806499f3f81b6c3&ll=40.501416,-74.446728&spn=0.008501,0.013819&z=16

real time updates
http://www.nextbus.com/
route: winter/spring break/summer L. Direction:Livingston student center. Stop: train station
route:winter/spring break/summer A. direction: Busch student center. stop: Scott hall
route: winter/spring break/summer A: direction: Rutgers Student center. stop: train station

the summer bus schedule:
http://rudots.rutgers.edu/PDF/Summer 2009 Web Updates.pdf
the route description: look for weekend A/weekend L and all campus
http://www.nextbus.com/predictor/publicMap.shtml?a=rutgers&r=routea

Great job on publicity! Look forward to a fun-filled event and hope to see many RTDM readers turning up

In the aftermath of the elections it is not surprising to see some folks with vested interests leaving unsubstantiated random politically motivated comments, with a view to defaming Asha for Education. The “hate” comments (typical of the kind seen in “hate communities” in various social network sites and hate blogs) only prove that they have no idea about how Asha works and what they do and about the tremendous time and effort the volunteers put in to set up a democratic near-zero-overhead decentralized organization, with well-defined goals, policies, and practices; to sustain it over the years; and to make sure that the funds (again raised with hard work and labor) go to the most deserving projects.

I have been with Ashs for 5 years and I know how AfE functions and the thousands of underprivileged children they try to reach out to.

Which only brings a smirk to my face to see such comments from armchair mischief-mongers !!

And I am not here to campaign for Asha. Couldn’t help but write few lines in response to a whole barge of baseless defaming comments!

Let me welcome all RTDM readers on the basis of AfE Central NJ, Rutgers University, and RIGSA (Rutgers Indian Graduate Students’ Association) to “Battle of the Minds”! B-)

Come one, come all, to see GB in action!

See you there!

do you mind posting the qns here once the event is over