90 SOCIAL SCIENTIST language (and that includes English). Somewhere between the passing admirer and the blind supplicant stands the real Tagore; a true Renaissance man, who thought and wrote prodigiously about most topics under our sun, and suns beyond, who loved life, and lived life, to the full - with passion, zest, wisdom and wit. One could go on and on quoting from the book, about Tagore' s ideas - on translation (prefiguring contemporary canons), on women in general and marriage in particular, on charity towards the less privileged (especially when it came to brains), on missionaries, on foreign rule, on education, on the value of science and the dangers of superstition, but alas, one has to stop somewhere. APARAJITA ROYSINHA Hyderabad