# The private creative world of Rabindranath Tagore, the man Yeats called ‘greater than any of us’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-private-creative-world-of-rabindranath-tagore-the-man-yeats-called-greater-than-any-of-us/
- Published: 2026-11-03T15:24:53+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-03T20:40:59+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/03/rabindranath-tagore-yeats-nobel-prize-india
- Topics: Art, Asia, Culture, Europe, Politics, World

## Key points

- A family archive reveals Tagore’s private world in his final years.
- The collection includes manuscripts, letters, art and personal belongings.
- A 1940 memoir draft echoes his educational philosophy.

## Summary

A previously unseen family archive is being shown publicly for the first time at a Christie’s exhibition in Mumbai. It offers a personal view of Rabindranath Tagore’s creative work and relationships during visits to his protégé Maitreyi Devi’s family home in Mungpoo from 1938 to 1940, shortly before his death.

The material includes artworks, manuscripts, hundreds of letters, photographs and personal belongings. One 1940 manuscript, apparently a draft of Tagore’s memoir *My Boyhood Days*, reflects on education and creativity, ideas he also put into practice at his experimental Santiniketan school. It is the only one of ten complete manuscripts in the exhibition dictated to Devi, suggesting the trust between them.

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