Tag Archives: Landings
Elzbieta Walter on the translations of Tagore’s Post Office to Polish
Public talk by Elzbieta Walter introduced and chaired by Landings (Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl):
Despite the fact that Tagore never visited Poland, he is no doubt the only Indian writer whose writings have been extensively translated into Polish. The play Dakghar (The Post Office) has been translated into Polish five times by different translators. It was also staged several times. One of the most significant staging was conducted during the Second World War in Poland in Jewish Orphans’ Home in the Warsaw ghetto run by Janusz Korczak. Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (1878/79-1942), a Polish-Jewish educator, physician, children’s author and essayist. He organized a staging of Dakghar with the children of the orphanage just few weeks before several of them and he were deported to the concentration camp of Treblinka.
Elzbieta Walter is a Tagore scholar and literary theorist based in Poland, and an alumnus of Santiniketan.
SRINIKETAN – Craft as an Education of Living
Exhibited at the nGbK in Berlin at ‘Tagore’s Post Office‘ within Landings Installation
29 March – 1 June 2014
video by Kim Schonewille
SRINIKETAN – Craft as an Education of Living from Kim Schonewille on Vimeo.
Dakghar: Notes Towards Isolation and Recognition
[PDF] A booklet by Landings (Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl) for the exhibition Tagore’s Post Office, curated by Grant Watson at NGBK, Berlin (workshop 4).
Vivian Ziherl talks about Landings contribution to Tagore’s Post Office exhibition at ngbk
Elzbieta Walter – public talk
Public talk by Elzbieta Walter introduced and chaired by Landings (Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl)
Despite the fact that Tagore never visited Poland, he is no doubt the only Indian writer whose writings have been extensively translated into Polish. The play Dakghar (The Post Office) has been translated into Polish five times by different translators. It was also staged several times. One of the most significant staging was conducted during the Second World War in Poland in Jewish Orphans’ Home in the Warsaw ghetto run by Janusz Korczak. Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (1878/79-1942), a Polish-Jewish educator, physician, children’s author and essayist. He organized a staging of Dakghar with the children of the orphanage just few weeks before several of them and he were deported to the concentration camp of Treblinka.
Elzbieta Walter is a Tagore scholar and literary theorist based in Poland, and an alumnus of Santiniketan.
Dakghar: Notes Towards Isolation and recognition
[PDF] Dakghar: Notes Towards Isolation and Recognition, by Landings (Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl) a booklet for Tagore’s Post Office exhibition, curated by Grant Watson at NGBK, Berlin (Workshop 4).
The Idea of Santiniketan: A Personal Understanding
Read The Idea of Santiniketan: A Personal Understanding, (2007) by Pulak Dutta, shared by Landings (Natasha Ginwala & Vivian Ziherl)
Photos from workshop moments in Berlin by Carla Cruz
This is the collection of photos of the various events held for the fourth workshop in Berlin. Friday at NGBK; Saturday at Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmannan’s Studio and again in the NGBK in the evening
Elzbieta Walter: Public Talk
FRAGMENTING TAGORE: Saturday 12 April
Anshuman Biswas and Magda Mayas: Parentheses on Truth, Beauty and Humanity; a live event based on the conversations between Einstein and Tagore with took place at Einstein’s house near Berlin in 1930.
Anshuman Dasgupta: Translating Tagore: the problems and possibilities of attending Tagore from another language and culture
Adrian Rifkin: Tagore seen seated: some others standing, a short speculation in composing the past-imperfect of the ‘post-colonial’
Third meeting – London
These are the photographs taken during the third workshop at Iniva and the Tagore Centre, London, March 2014. Photos by Ho, Yu, Sheng and Carla Cruz.

Kodwo Eshun, Andrea Phillips and Grant Watson, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng

photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng

Eona McCallum, Shanay Jhaveri and Wendelien van Oldenborgh, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng

Kodwo Eshun, Wendelien van Oldenborgh and Grant Watson, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng

photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng

Adrian Rifkin, Andreas Mueller and Antje Weitzel, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng

photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng

Tagore Centre, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng

Tagore Centre, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng

Otolith Group example of a wall paper design, photo by Ho, Yu Sheng

Research Group, photo by Ho, Yu-Sheng