Other Publications

‘Tagore’s poetry in English translation’,Visva-Bharati Quarterly (May-October, 1976)

‘Visarjan and Sacrifice’,Visva-Bharati Quarterly (May-October, 1979)

‘Ten rules for translating Tagore’ , Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, 1986)

‘Tagore’s poetic power’, in Rabindranath Tagore: A Celebration of his Life and Work (Tagore Festival Brochure, London, 1986)

‘The quality of mercy is not strained…’ [from ‘Shakespearean Sketches’, The Retreat, University Press Limited, Dhaka, 1994] in John Smith (ed.), The Poet’s Gift: Poems by the Crabbe Memorial Poetry Competition Judges 1955-1985 (The Suffolk Poetry Society, 1986)

‘Betty Radice and the Penguin Classics’, Folio (The Folio Society, London, 1987)

‘Ten Short Poems’ [from The Retreat, University Press Limited, Dhaka, 1994] in Carol Ann Duffy (ed.), Home and Away (Southern Arts Association/Thamesdown Community Arts, 1988)

‘Artistry and humanism of Tagore’; ‘Translating Rabindranath’s poems’; ‘Reading Tagore in English’, in Presenting Tagore’s Heritage in Canada (Tagore Lectureship Foundation, Toronto, 1989)

‘The literatures of the north-east’, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka...(Cambridge, 1989)

‘Letters from Europe’ (tr.), in Purabi: a Miscellany in Memory of Rabindranath Tagore (The Tagore Centre, London, 1991)

‘Charuchandra Bandyopadhyaya’s collection of Tagore manuscripts’, in Christie’s Sale Catalogue (London, 26 June 1991)

‘Two private and literary lives: Betty Radice and Gibbon’s Memoirs’, Folio (The Folio Society, London 1991)

‘My teachers’, in The Statesman, Festival ‘91 (Calcutta, 1991)

‘Milton and Madhusudan’, in G. R. Taneja & Vinod Sena  (ed.), Literature East and West, Essays presented to R. K. DasGupta (Allied Publishers Ltd. Delhi, 1995) and David Arnold and Peter Robb (ed.), Institutions and Ideologies: A South Asian Reader (Centre of South Asian Studies, SOAS, 1993)

‘The poems and stories of RabindranathTagore’, in Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective (Columbia University, New York, 1994)

‘Bengali’, in Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (Edinburgh,1993)

R. Karim, ‘Bankimchandra in the eys of a non-Hindu’; Rabindranath Tagore, poem: ‘Bankimchandra’ (tr.), in Sahitya Akademi Bankimchandra Centenary Volume (Delhi, 1994)

‘Closer to Tagore: Rozsa Hajnoczy’s Fire of Bengal’, The Statesman (Calcutta,  27 March 1993)

‘Isvarcandra Vidyasagar, Sakuntala and the liberation of Bengali’ , in Vidyasagar Commemoration Volume (Calcutta, 1994)

‘The image of nationhood in the poetry of Shamsur Rahman’, In Between  Vol. 2 No. 1 (Delhi, 1993)

‘Badal the Sannyasi’, short story by Martin Kämpchen (tr. from German), The Statesman, Festival ‘93 (Calcutta, 1993)

‘Tagore studies in England’, in Vol. 12, Tagore: Collected Works (Daisanbunmeisha, Tokyo, 1993, translated into Japanese)

 ‘Tagore and Kalidasa’, South Asia Research, Vol. 16 No.1, Spring 1996, pp.45-60, in special Bengali Studies issue edited by W.R.

‘Michael Madhusudan Datta und sein Enthusiasmus’, Beiträge des Südasien-Instituts (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Heft 7, 1994)

‘Guide to Tagore: Subhendusekhar Mukhopadhyay’,The Statesman (Calcutta, 5 February 1994)

‘Flute-music’ by Rabindranath Tagore, tr. William Radice, in The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry ed. Vinay Dharwadker and A.K.Ramanujan, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1994

‘Learning from Tagore and Jibanananda’, The Statesman (Calcutta, 30 July 1994)

‘Teach me the tune’, Batayaniker Patra (Tagore Reserach Centre, Batayanik, Calcutta, 1994)    

‘Tagore or Rabindranath?', The Statesman (Calcutta, 15 April 1995)

'Adam’s Gift’ (poem) and ‘To Ahalya’ (tr. of poem by R.T.), Statesman, Festival 1995, Calcutta, 1995

‘Rabindranath Tagore’, in Reader’s Guide to Literature in English, ed. Mark Hawkins-Dady (London & Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1996)

‘Three poems’, The Statesman Festival ’96 (Calcutta, 1996)

‘North-east India and Bangladesh’ in Traveller’s Literary Companion to the Indian Sub-continent, ed. Simon Weightman, In Print Publishing Ltd., Brighton & Passport Books, Lincolnwood (Chicago), Illinois, 1996, pp.263-328.

‘Song of the City’ (tr. of Nagar-sangit  by Tagore) in The Statesman Festival ‘97

‘Punishment’ by Rabindranath Tagore, tr. William Radice, in The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, ed. Maynard Mack et al., expanded edition, Vol. 2, New York, W.W.Norton & Co. 1997

‘Small lives, humble distress: Tagore, Bibhutibhushan and the Bengali Short Story’ in Journal of the Institute of Bengali Studies (Rajshahi, Bangladesh, Volume 18 1995) and Journal of the Short Story in English  (Presses de l’université d’Angers, France, No. 24, Spring 1995)

‘Nirad Babu recalled’ in Swapan Dasgupta (ed.), Nirad C. Chaudhuri: The First Hundred Years - a Celebration (New Delhi: Harper Collins, 1997)

‘An Elegy for Juan Mascaró’ and ‘Parlament a l’acte d’investidura’ in Goncal López and Antoni Mas (eds.), Joan Mascaró i Fornés (1897-1987) (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma, 1997)

‘Bert’ poems in Jellyfish Cupful: Writings in Honour of John Fuller ed. Barney Cokeliss & James Fenton (London: Ulysses 1997)

‘A Song of Farewell to His Excellency Dr L. M. Singhvi at the end of his time as High Commissioner for India in London’Temenos Academy Review, London, Spring 1998; reproduced in Dr. K. L. Nandan (ed.), A Diplomatic Sojurn: Dr. L. M. Singhvi in the UK (Himalayan Books, New Delhi, 2002)

‘Writing a Bengali Language Course’ in 'Proceedings of European Network of Bangladesh Studies Workshop, The Netherlands, 1994 (UPL, Dhaka, 1998)

Entry on Tagore in Encyclopedia of Literary Translation (London, 1998)

‘Writing for the Future’, in The Statesman Festival ’98 (Calcutta, 1998)

‘Xenophilia and Xenophobia: Michael Madhusudan Datta’s Meghnadbadh-kabya’, in Rupert Snell & I.M.P. Raeside (ed.),Classics of Modern South Asian Literature (Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1998)

‘The Humour of Calcutta’ in Christina Oesterheld & Claus Peter Zoller (ed.), Of Clowns and Gods, Brahmans and Babus: Humour in South Asian Literatures (Manohar, New Delhi, 1999)

‘Particles and Sparks: Tagore, Einstein and the poetry of science’, in India International Centre Quarterly, Vol. 25 Nos. 2&3, Summer-Monsoon 1998

‘Mother’s Son’, in Steve Hare (ed.) Father and Son  (Penguin Collectors Society, 1999)

'Atheists, fanatics and gurus: Rabindranath Tagore’s Chaturanga’ (Modern Asian Studies: Tapan Raychaudhuri Festschrift, Vol 34 No 2, 2000)

‘‘Rabindranath Tagore: magical alchemist’, in ‘100 People who Shaped Modern India’ (India Today, Delhi, January 2000)

‘Indeterminacy in Rabindrsangit’, Archiv Orientální, Vol. 68 No.3, August 2000, Bengali Studies Special Issue, dedicated to Dušan Zbavitel on his 75^th birthday, edited by William Radice, pp.477-494

'Gazing at the Sun: Bangladeshi Poets and Rabindranath Tagore’, in Pandulipi: Journal of the Bangla Sahitya Samiti, Chittagong University, Bangladesh (No. 18, 2000); also in Parabaas, 2003 (www.parabaas.com/rabindranath/articles/pradice_gazing.html)

‘A young woman has mixed feelings about the patchwork quilt she has just completed’ [from ‘People’, Louring Skies, Anvil Press, 1985] in Peter Jay (ed.), The Spaces of Hope: Poetry for Our Times and Spaces (Anvil Press, London 1998)

‘Tagore’s Poetic Greatness’ (Rabindra Bhavan, Ahmedabad, 2003); also in Parabaas, 2003 (www.parabaas.com/rabindranath/articles/pradice.html)

Foreword to Rabindranath Tagore: Show Yourself to My Soul: A New Translation of Gitanjali (ed. David E. Schlaver, Sorin Books, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2002)

‘The significance of Michael Madhusudan Dutt and his epic’, India International Centre Quarterly, Vol. 30 No. 1, Summer 2003

‘Sonnet’ in Babel XIII, 20^th birthday issue (Denklingen, Germany), p.44

Foreword to Ghulam Murshid, Lured by Hope: A Biography of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, translated from Bengali by Gopa Majumdar (Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2003)

‘New Sparks from the Anvil – Translating Rabindranath Tagore’s Brief Poems’, in South Asia Archive & Library Group Newsletter, Issue 1, ed. Catherine Pickett (The British Library, 2003)

‘Bhalabasar bhasha bangla bhasha’, in Desh, Bai samkhya (Kolkata, February 2004), pp.153-156

‘Citta yetha bhayasunya’, in Ananda Bazar Patrika, 3 April 2004 (Kolkata)

Foreword to a new edition of Paul R. Fleischman, Cultivating Inner Peace (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, first published 1997; new edition 2004)

‘Rabindranath Tagore’ in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 53 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp.643-647

‘Confession versus the exclamation mark: why Rabindranath Tagore did not like the poetry of Michael Madhusudan Dutt’, in Temenos Academy Review, 8, 2005, pp.167-183

‘Julia Leslie: A Life in South Asian Studies’, in South Asia Research, Vol. 25 No. 2, November 2005, pp.23-127

‘Rabindranath Tagore’ in Satish Kumar & Freddie Whitefield (ed.), Visionaries of the 20^th Century: A Resurgence Anthology (Green Books, Totnes, Devon, 2006), pp.178-179

‘Writing Words for Music’, Connecting, The British Council, Kolkata, November 2006

‘The Twelve Bow-Movements’ in Dhvani, an on-line journal published by Assam University, January-March 2008 (http://barak.dhvani.googlepages.com/january-march2008)

+ many academic book reviews (especially for the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies) and articles for the Indian press, especially his ‘Letter from England’ column for the Statesman, Kolkata, 1998-2002 (now collected into a book: see Main Publications)