blog  Seminar: Tagore digital editions and Bengali textual computing.

Oct 2011

Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri yesterday gave a very interesting talk on the scope, methods and aims of 'Bichitra' (literally, 'the various'), the ongoing project for an online variorum edition of the complete works of Rabindranath Tagore in English and Bengali. The talk (part of this year's DDH research seminar) highlighted a number of issues I personally wasn't much familiar with, so in this post I'm summarising them a bit and then highlighting a couple of possible suggestions.