Bookclub: The Home and the World

In this first edition of BFM's Bookclub for 2011, Nurul Izzah Anwar, Member of Parliament for Lembah Pantai, joins Umapagan Ampikaipakan and Shazmin Shamsuddin to discuss Rabindranath Tagore's 'The Home And The World'.

Set on a Bengali noble's estate, the work is both a love story and a novel of political awakening, with the three main characters each representing the turbulence of the Partition looming on India's horizon in 1947.

Painting an era of tremendous social change, the work is said to illustrate the battle Tagore had with himself, between the ideas of Western culture and the revolution against it.