![]() ![]() He holds no personal agenda of manipulation and is rather honourable in trying to get Bimala to take stock of the world and her place in it. Being a strong believer in rational thought and action, Nikhil believes that, “To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.”īimala's husband, Nikhil, is wise and enlightened. Being an openly vocal character, Sandip does not hesitate to declare that "My country … becomes mine on the day when I am able to win it by force." On the other end, Nikhil is the passive and mature thinker who is strongly against violence and extreme nationalism. On one end, Sandip is a strong and aggressive character who is very much a militant nationalist in his approach. Although they are the male protagonists, the essentials of their character are blatantly contrasting from one another. The relationship between Sandip and Nikhil, despite being good friends, is one of extreme duality. ![]() In this novel Nikhil is a personification of moderate politics whereas Sandip represents the aggressive nationalism throughout the novel. ![]() ![]() Both these streams surely are built on the basis of ideals and the followers are motivated according to their beliefs. The first stream may be termed as Moderation that articulates essentially pure patriotism without showing the aggressiveness of the Extremism that is the other stream. Rabindranath Tagore, a worshipper of universal humanism, depicts two different streams of Nationalism in his novel The Home and the World. ![]()
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