Chirakumar sabha rabindranath tagore biography

1 Love in the Time of the Birth of a Celibate India: A Study of Rabindranath Tagore’s Chirakumar Sabha (“An Association for Lifelong Celibates”) By Dipankar Roy I A man who was once asked why he did not weep at a sermon, when everybody was shedding tears, replied: “I don’t belong to the parish!” What that man thought of tears would be still more true of laughter.

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughters, real or imaginary… To understand laughter, we must put it back into its natural environment, which is society, and above all must we determine the utility of its function, which is a social one.

(Emphasis added) (Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, first published in 1900) It has been a year since the young men of our l