Ria Modak

Ria Modak is a musician and PhD student at Brown University studying modern Southasian history.

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Rabindranath Tagore’s birthplace in Kolkata, now a museum, remains a site of pilgrimage for generations of Bengalis. A close reading of ‘Sahaj Path’, Tagore’s famous Bengali-language primer, reveals a disturbing undercurrent of casual casteism and tacit sexism.

Uneasy lessons from Tagore’s beloved Bengali primer

17 Dec 2024

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