“If one had to fill in, little by little, the gap between day and night, it would take an eternity to do it. But the sun rises and the darkness is dispelled—a moment is sufficient to overcome an infinite distance.”

Meek and obedient, Bimala’s quiet life with her husband Nikhil is torn apart when she hears a young revolutionary speak at a political rally. Passionate and ambitious, Sandip soon draws Bimala into his web, encouraging her to become a more radical and modern woman. As Bimala finds herself torn between tradition and revolution, she will come to find her place both within the home, and in the outside world.

Poet, writer, and composer Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. The Home and the World, an allegory for the internal conflict of India and its people, delicately describes the two paths to independence and foreshadows the tragedy to come.

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