'One has waited a very long time for a biography of Tagore that did justice to a far more complex and curious mind and life than simply respectful and circumspect accounts allowed. Here it is: thorough, fair, balanced, intelligent, and addressing every aspect of a truly astonishing artist, his life and times.' - Anita Desai; 'The entire book was a revelation to me - it brings out very clearly that Tagore was intellectually more perceptive than Gandhi.' - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Laureate; 'A fascinating book about a fascinating man, a work that addresses the profound conflict between eastern spirituality and western rationality.' - Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Laureate; 'An excellent book - as an elegantly argued and subtly shaded portrait it will be difficult to supersede.' - Frank McLynn, Literary Review; 'Enjoyable, astute and highly readable.' - Amit Chaudhuri, Spectator; 'This seems to exemplify a sort of biography little dared anymore; an enquiry into the spirit and mind of a man whom the authors trust and admire and do not presume to overinterpret.' - Candia McWilliam, Independent on Sunday; 'Excellent - admirably straightforward, readable, lively, informative.' - J.D.F. Jones, Financial Times; 'Judicious, sympathetic and exceedingly well documented.' - P.N. Furbank, The Times; 'It has been a pleasure to read a well-written, well-researched and well-documented biography.' - Kathleen Raine, The Tablet; 'A painstaking, informative, well-written biography.' - Nicholas Mosley, Daily Telegraph; 'Dutta and Robinson's lively narrative steers clear of facile categories...so revealing the subtle nuances of East and West in the poet's sensibility.' - Maria Couto, Guardian; 'An ambitious and altogether brilliant biography - exceptionally fair-minded.' - Sunday (Calcutta); 'Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson have established themselves as the pre-eminent Tagore scholars.' - K. Natwar Singh, Asian Age; 'a superb biography' - The New Yorker