Rabindranath tagore birth anniversary News
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In today’s DNA episode, Zee News Managing Editor Rahul Sinha explains why Bengal’s new government is being urged to build a grand “Statue of Humanity” for Rabindranath Tagore after PM Modi’s symbolic tribute on Tagore Jayanti during the historic swearing-in ceremony.
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Rabindranath Tagore, who was a poet, playwright, philosopher, and reformer, was the first Asian Nobel laureate.
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Rabindranath Tagore was born in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta to Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi
He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913
He is known to have played a pivotal role in shaping Bengali literature, art, and music
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On his 159th birth anniversary, let's get to know him a little better.
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It has been an age-old custom to celebrate Tagore's birthday as per the Bengali calendar.
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Chakravarty, the wife of former Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, recollected her first encounter with Tagore's writing was "Sahaj Path".
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