Is the ultimate realization that strikes Gora, the central character of Tagore’s complex novel by the same name. Sadly, even after almost a century past this novel, how very far-fetching such an understanding within us seems.
Gora is the largest and the most complex of the 12 novels written by Rabindranath Tagore. Undoubtedly a classic, this epic debates a number of issues/ concerns, which seem very contemporary and are easily applicable to current scenario of our country. This book while being a reflection and analysis of the multifarious social life in colonial India, is also about alteration in one’s own beliefs with changing times, society/ community and its manifold influences on people, acceptance/ denial of true feelings, self discernments, coexistence of religious tolerance and disharmony, sectarianism, changing status of women and an overall transformation seen and sensed within an individual and the society in gene