Even after more than a hundred years, this collection of Tagore’s poems remains to be the warmest and the most heartfelt piece of literature for the lovers of poetry. Gitanjali or ‘Song Offerings’ is a volume of 103 poems selected by Tagore from his books of Bengali poetry. It was largely the poems in Gitanjali that took the West by storm and brought him worldwide recognition. Introducing this slim volume, W.B. Yeats wrote: ‘…[the poems] have stirred my blood as nothing has for years...