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Politics in West Bengal often revolves around the State’s cultural icons. Over the past few days, the two tallest names in the Bengal literary world — Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay — have become subjects of an intense political debate, with political parties appearing to be in a hurry to appropriate them. In the…
On the occasion of India’s 78th Independence Day, the Nobel Prize Foundation shared a handwritten translation by Rabindranath Tagore of India’s National Anthem. “‘Jana Gana Mana’ is the national anthem of India, originally composed in Bengali by poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913,” the X account of the…
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PM Modi paid tributes to Rabindranath Tagore on his birth anniversary. New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday paid tributes to Rabindranath Tagore, an iconic talent who excelled in varied fields, on his birth anniversary. He said on X, “I pay homage to Gurudev Tagore, on the occasion of his Jayanti. His enduring wisdom…
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Kolkata: Maintaining that Rabindranath Tagore was an emotion, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Wednesday said that the Nobel laureate’s memory cannot be obliterated or ignored. Mr Bose made the comment when asked by reporters about the row over the plaques installed at the Visva-Bharati, founded by Tagore, to mark the UNESCO world heritage…
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CV Ananda Bose is also the rector of the Visva-Bharti university (File) Kolkata: After an outrage over the omission of Rabindranath Tagore’s name from plaques installed at Visva-Bharati to mark it being declared a global heritage site by UNESCO, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday said that the vice chancellor of the varsity…
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CV Ananda Bose is also the rector of the university. Kolkata/Santiniketan: Even as a Trinamool Congress demonstration against the omission of Rabindranath Tagore’s name from plaques installed at Visva-Bharati to mark it being declared a global heritage site by UNESCO threatened to become a major political issue, it is learnt that West Bengal Governor CV…
Santiniketan was added to the UNESCO list during the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee New Delhi: Santiniketan, where Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore built Visva-Bharati over a century ago, has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The world body made the announcement in a post on ‘X’ on Sunday. “New inscription on the…
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