The Home and the World | Wikipedia audio article |
|
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Home_and_the_World 00:01:55 1 Historical context 00:02:05 1.1 Political movement 00:03:51 1.2 Traditional Indian household 00:06:19 2 Characters 00:06:28 2.1 Nikhil 00:07:27 2.2 Bimala 00:08:12 2.3 Sandip 00:09:16 2.4 Bara Rani 00:09:52 2.5 Amulya 00:10:57 3 Plot summary 00:11:06 3.1 Major events 00:11:15 3.1.1 The Rally 00:12:07 3.1.2 Bimala's realisation 00:13:53 4 Important themes 00:14:03 4.1 Nationalism 00:16:52 4.2 Tradition vs modernism 00:18:26 4.3 Sandip vs. Nikhil 00:19:58 4.4 Illusions 00:21:54 4.5 Truth 00:23:10 4.6 Love and union 00:26:08 4.7 The role of women 00:28:27 4.8 Religion versus nationalism 00:31:31 5 Film, TV or theatrical adaptations 00:32:28 6 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.7737529952562914 Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-A "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= The Home and the World (in the original Bengali, ঘরে বাইরে Ghôre Baire or Ghare Baire, lit. "At home and outside") is a 1916 novel by Rabindranath Tagore. The book illustrates the battle Tagore had with himself, between the ideas of Western culture and revolution against the Western culture. These two ideas are portrayed in two of the main characters, Nikhilesh, who is rational and opposes violence, and Sandip, who will let nothing stand in his way from reaching his goals. These two opposing ideals are very important in understanding the history of the Bengal region and its contemporary problems. There is much controversy over whether or not Tagore was attempting to represent Gandhi with Sandip. This is owing to Gyorgy Lukacs's 1922 review of the novel in the Berlin periodical, Die rote Fahne (that is typically translated into English as "Tagore's Gandhi Novel") where he makes this mistaken suggestion. The novel could not have been based on Gandhi as it was published in 1916 (and written before) when Gandhi had just moved to India from South Africa (1915) and was not a known political figure. Gandhi gained political prominence in India in the context of the Khilafat movement of 1919, which was long after the novel's publication, and took over the leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1920. The novel was translated into English by the author's nephew, Surendranath Tagore, with input from the author, in 1919. |