Here is my new comics adaptation of Tagore’s Bengali poem “Ananta Prem,” translated into English by William Radice (1951-2024) as “Undending Love.” Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is India’s most celebrated and beloved poet, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. “Ananta Prem” is part of his early poetic output, and was first published in 1890. It was the favourite poem of Audrey Hepburn, and her “Roman Holiday” co-star Gregory Peck recited it in a televised tribute to the actress after her passing.
The style of this comic is heavily indebted to the watercolours of the poet’s nephew, Abanindranath Tagore (1871-1951), a pivotal figure in the history of modern Indian painting and the founder of the Bengal school of art, which beautifully and lyrically combines Mughal and Japanese influences.
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