![]() ![]() The slogan of the movement is Bande Mataram, “Hail Motherland.” Bimala complains that her husband, the cosmopolitan Hindu landlord Nikhil, is cool in his devotion to the cause:Īnd yet it was not that my husband refused to support Swadeshi, or was in any way against the Cause. In Rabindranath Tagore’s novel, The Home and the World, the young wife Bimala, entranced by the patriotic rhetoric of her husband’s friend Sandip, becomes an eager devotee of the Swadeshi movement, which has organized a boycott of foreign goods. Diogenes Laertius, Life of Diogenes the Cynic When anyone asked him where he came from, he said, ‘I am a citizen of the world.’
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