The growing global burden of mental health disorders has highlighted the limitations of exclusively biomedical and symptom-focused treatment models, prompting renewed interest in holistic and culturally rooted approaches to psychological well-being. Indian psychological traditions—particularly yoga, meditation, and mindfulness—offer comprehensive frameworks that integrate cognitive, emotional,...
This paper offers a comparative analysis of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali (with attention to the 1912 English self-translation of the 1910 Bengali text) and selected English translations of Meerabai’s bhakti poems. It examines devotional vision, poetic voice, gendered subjectivity, figurative language, musicality, and translation strategies shaping modern reception. Using a qualitative...