India, May 4 -- As India celebrates Tagore's 164th anniversary, his contributions beyond poetry often go unnoticed

In the autumn of 1924, Raktakarabi (Red Oleander) was published in the then famous Bengali magazine Prabasi. A tale of desperation of the underground gold miners in a dark city ruled by a greedy King, Tagore's novel sent ripples of reaction across the world of literature, not only in homeland but also across Europe and the Orient. Three years later, Metropolis by Fritz Lang released to the world audience and reflected the same imageries of a fictional dystopian city with aggressive industrialisation. Though Tagore did not have had any audience with Lang, it is quite evident that they had some similarities in their views on t...