As I Hear the Bell Tolls

Abdullah earned a PhD degree in economics from Georgia State University and an MBA degree from Western Kentucky University. He travelled places in Europe, the Carribean, and the USA. His doctoral dissertation title was 'Impact of globalization on micro-determinants of industrial agglomeration: The case of U.S. manufactruing industries, 1988-2003'. His blogging interest includes current events analysis, globalization and its impact on sustainable development in regions and countries.

Monday, January 30, 2006

"World's Largest Online Library" and Victoria Ocampo


The address of the website is: http://www.questia.com/
You can read many best seller contemporary novels and evergreen classics here for free(only time to invest)!
In this Library, I have found a nice book on Victoria Ocampo of Argentina, nobel laureate Indian poet Tagore's Vijaya. The title of the book is "VICTORIA OCAMPO: Writer, Feminist, Woman of the World". This book is translated and edited by Patricia Owen Steiner. Publisher is UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS ALBUQUERQUE.
Victoria was a renaissance lady. An editor of the famous Latin American literary magazine the 'Sur', a poet, a novelist, a social worker, human rights activist..the list could go on and on. But, I was mainly curious about the life and works of this great lady primarily because of her much publicized friendship with the indian poet Rabindranath Tagore-perhaps the only guy whose lyrics are used as national anthem for two different countries-India and Bangladesh. Tagore was hosted by 'Vijaya' (the word Vijaya is the bengali synnonym for the word Victoria). His brief stay in Argentia was eventful and produced some sweet liteary works, some of which later was published in bengali language (Tagore's first language). In Shantiniketan(in the alternative university founded by Tagore in West Bengal, India), there is still preseved the deck chair that was presented by Victoria to Tagore on the later's return voyage from Argentina to India. Interested readers can read the book along with some complementary articles .
The weblink of the book on Victoria Okampo is as follows: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst;jsessionid=DbV6bvvhJZzhHM6SxwF54J3kkHCmhH1G3yG26CjTVLRKc77k6zP8!-2077773756?a=o&d=77473354

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