This is On Beings Unheard Cut. I'm Krista Tippett. You're listening to my

unedited conversation with Andrew Robinson. He is the co-writer of the

biography Rebindronaut to Gore, the myriad-minded man. I spoke with him on

January 26th, 2014, from Caliapayas studio at On Being on

Loring Park in Minneapolis. He was at BBC Studios in London. Download the

MP3 of the produced show with Andrew Robinson at On Being.org. Hello?

Oh, hello. Hi. Hi. Hello from Minnesota. It's very cold here today.

It's wet here today. Is it? Yes. Where are you? We're in London and the

in off-procusting house. Okay. All right. Great. Well, thanks for doing this.

I'm excited to talk to you. I've spoken with Anita Desai, the novelist, and

Amitav Gouche. So I've gotten some very different perspectives, but you know,

it's really fascinating to delve into this. And I think Tagore is one of these

figures who was so important in his time, but his, you know, and maybe people have

seen that picture of him in Einstein. But they don't even know who he is.

So we're excited about doing our little part to bring him to the awareness of

people. Good. So Chris, how are we doing? Sorry, I'm just speaking to my producer behind

the glass. Okay. Okay. Yes, we're going to talk about

Robindranath Tagore, I think, and maybe a bit about Einstein. And we're here in

London. I presume we're going to get rid of the echo, aren't we? Oh, are you here?

Oh, great. Oh, okay. So would you say, is it Gitanjali? Gitanjali? Gitanjali.

All right. Yeah. It doesn't matter to me. Well, I know, but I said it incorrectly at one

point. And it, I mean, does matter. Gitanjali. I don't think we'll say it very often,

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