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Sweden celebrates 100 years of Tagore's Nobel

Jun 04, 2013

Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel Prize centenary celebrations began here Tuesday with Bollywood icon Sharmila Tagore, who is from the same family and on her first visit here, saying that there will "be readings of Tagore poetry and prose". The opening ceremony took place in central Stockholm. #NewsTracker #Rabindranath Tagore #Sweden #Nobel Prize
The last harvest of Rabindranath Tagore's paintings

Apr 23, 2013

The Last Harvest, curated by Professor Raman Siva Kumar of Visva-Bharati University, presents one of the most elaborate exhibitions of Tagore�s paintings that we�ve seen. Here are the images. #Rabindranath Tagore #art #ImagesOfTheDay #The Last Harvest
Time to make Tagores Mind Without Fear our National Anthem?

Jan 07, 2013

When the choice was to be made between Jana Gana Mana and Vande Mataram as the national anthem, the decision went in favour of the former essentially because of its powerful musical score #India #Rabindranath Tagore #InMyOpinion #National Anthem #Vande Mataram

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Tagore Hill akhra debut

2013-06-18 00:23:00

Tribal ideologue and cultural luminary Ram Dayal Munda may be no more, but his dream culture hub, an akhra on historic Tagore Hill, Ranchi, has inched closer to reality. The agency carrying out its construction has promised completion by July this year — #
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Kolkata to get hub on Tagore

2013-06-11 15:38:00

K0olkata, June 11 (IANS) To integrate science, philosophy and culture, a hub dedicated to spread Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's interpretations of philosophy of science will open June 19 here at Bose Institute, physicist Bikash Sinha said here Tues #Kolkata #London #Oxford University
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Tagore's Nobel prize centenary celebrated in Sweden

2013-06-04 13:48:00

Stockholm, June 4 (IANS) Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel Prize centenary celebrations began here Tuesday with Bollywood icon Sharmila Tagore, who is from the same family and on her first visit here, saying that there will "be readings of Tagore poetry and pr #Stockholm #Sharmila Tagore #Bollywood

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