Bashabi Fraser, poet, Professor Emeritus at Napier University, who bridges East and West in her own work, talks to BIG LIT online about her new biography of Indian Polymath and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore - a new and a long overdue critical biography. In this timely reappraisal of Tagore's life and work, Bashabi Fraser assesses Tagore's many activities and shows how he embodies the modern consciousness of India.