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Study and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore‘s Creations in Ukraine: Translations of Viktor Batyuk

“…Batyuk studied under the tutorship of the Bengali and Sanskrit expert, a revered Tagore scholar, based in Moscow, Alexander Gnatyuk-Danilchuk. Concluding the preface of his first translations of Tagore's poetry, Batyuk thanked his teacher that he was blessed to have him as tutor, who inspired -a student from the land of Taras Shevchenko, to engage in Tagoreana‖ [1,24]. This also demonstrates that he imbibed the culture of -Guru-Shishya-Parampara‖ (connection for transfer of knowledge from the teacher to the student), where respect goes first to the teacher.…”

“…Combining his professional obligations as a state official, together with his creative passion for translation of Tagore, he is, by far the most prominent translator and researcher of Tagore, after Pavlo Ritter, going by the knowledge of Bengali and translations from the original. Deep academic knowledge of Bengali, the language in which Tagore wrote most of his works, characterizes them both [1].…”

“…Batyuk's reflections of Tagore are deep in scholarship and intellectualism, he recognizes the place of Tagore in the Indian subcontinent, and in the heart of each Indian and Bangladeshi national and also compares him with Taras Shevchenko's meaning for Ukrainians [1,5]. True, he emphasizes the anticolonial and anti-imperialist image of Tagore, promoted by the USSR, he eulogizes Tagore's positive impressions of visiting Russia, but at the same time, he underscores the humanist Tagore, who fought against the internal Indian superstitious systems of caste and religious orthodoxy [1,14].…”

“…In the 1940's, members of the Marxist Cultural movement of the 1940's Bengal, applying Marxian methodology [6,108], expressed their ideological criticism of many works of Tagore as having class-bias and bourgeois, and Bimalchandra Ghosh, a prominent poet of that movement, opined, that in the poem -Shahjahan‖, Tagore praises the Emperor, ignoring the lives of hundreds of workers, whose hands built the wondrous piece of architecture. Citing the criticism as untenable, Batyuk cites other poems of Tagore, such as -People at work‖, -Universal harmony‖, which celebrate the working people and express the opposite [1,22]. Batyuk cautions about the danger of interpreting Tagore from a definite political standpoint, with a very subtle and nuanced reference to the official Soviet approach to Tagore.…”

“…He analyzed and connected these thoughts with both ancient Indian philosophy as well as works of Ukrainian poets. He recalls the Upanishads that tell us: Life is omniscient and omnipresent, as well as the words of Lesya Ukrayinka, who wrote, -I have in my heart that does not die‖ (-Я маю у серці те, що не вмирає‖) or that of young Pavlo Tychyna, when he wrote, -And I don't understand how shall I die: my life is immortal‖ (-І як я вмру -не розумію: життя моє -одвічнеє‖) [1,20]. Thus, the contribution of Victor Batyuk in the study and reception of Rabindranath Tagore's works is immense and invaluable.…”