... he sang with his eyes squeezed tight, as if he were dropping from a great height. - Amit Chaudhuri

Afternoon's the most dreamless and introspective time of day, a sort of midnight of the daytime ...

... a severe woman with a patient but unprevaricating gaze, who turned out to be Indira Gandhi.

(Tagore is) 'making a statement of fact, just as the remembered lines from a child’s primer (jal pare/pata nare’; rain falls/the leaf trembles) that first drew Tagore to poetry state a fact. Here, Tagore seems to be telling us that no afflatus or elaboration is necessary, because the world is at its most compelling as it is.’