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The Man Behind The Beard

Amit Chaudhuri RABINDRANATH TAGORE: THE MYRIAD-MINDED MAN by Krishna Datta and Andrew Robinson Bloomsbury, £25, pp. 493 R abindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature......

These Happy Few

Patrick Reade ECCENTRICS by David Weeks and Jamie James Weidenfeld, £17.99, pp. 198 Wh ilst an undergraduate, I was intro- duced to the White Russian photographer Ida Kar, whose......