In this classic play Tagore dramatised the concept that the religion of man is much higher than the religion of rituals and scriptures. The conflict here is not only between obedience to ‘moth-eaten scriptures’ and religion of one’s choice but between the poetry of pity and the prose of social necessity.
Written and translated by the author-Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861-7 August 1941), was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its 'profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse', he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature.