A Plastic Kavi?

Abstract

Abstract This chapter conceptualizes the radical idea of ‘plastic kavi’ in relation to Tagore and his thoughts. A plastic kavi exists in the singularities of plastic moments where the flashpoints in thinking and formation are explosions that construct forms, develop their points of ignition from forms that are difficult to destroy, and initiate differentiations in critical thinking and aesthetic-ethical experiences. The chapter taps into the possibilities of Tagore to be other than what he is considered to be and what he thought he possibly could be. Plastic Tagore is the love for a Tagore who has always been restive, tensional, withdrawn, and recluse—a creative surplus that meant more but communicated less, achieved less in meaning but produced possibilities of agonistic life worlds.