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No Indian after Rabindranath Tagore in 1913 has got the Nobel for Literature. (Photo: Nobel Prize)

Pavan K Varma | Are the criteria to award Nobel wholly objective?

Mother Teresa got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Only next year did we give her the Bharat Ratna

16 Oct 2022 7:52 AM IST

This file photo taken on October 14, 2018 shows soldiers from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force taking part in a military review at the Ground Self-Defence Forces Asaka training ground in Asaka, Saitama prefecture. - Japan announced on December 16, 2022 its biggest defence overhaul in decades, hiking spending, reshaping its military command and acquiring new missiles to tackle the threat from China. (Photo: AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Will Japan's rearmament impact India's...

Japan's decision to strengthen its military will have definite implications for the Quad -- comprising the US, Japan,...

21 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

But Tagore was a staunch nationalist at heart, a man who had composed the tune to Vande Mataram which animated the protests against the partition of Bengal in 1905.

Raja Karthikeya | The secret in 'Jana Gana Mana'

Tagore was apparently asked by a British friend to write a eulogy to King George V during his visit to India in 1911

25 Jan 2022 4:45 PM IST

Cover photo of Grief Growth Grace by Neena Verma. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Rising beyond personal losses

The three-part book invites you to discover each of the three entwined phenomena of grief, growth and grace.

6 May 2023 12:36 AM IST

Cover photo of The Scientific Sufi: The Life and Times of Jagadish Chandra Bose by Meher Wan. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Jagadish Bose, idealist who shone against odds

Wan is strong at delineating the overwhelming odds Bose had to overcome all through his life.

16 July 2023 12:01 AM IST

Dancing to Tagores Tunes

Dancing to Tagore's Tunes

To celebrate Tagore's 157th birthday, the NCPA organised an evening of music and dance.

27 May 2018 1:46 AM IST

A candle walk, remembering Tagore, on the concluding day

Where the mind is without fear

It is a very logical thing that your freedom ends where mine begins.

24 May 2018 1:29 AM IST

He was speaking at a seminar China-India Buddhist and Other Exchanges attended by Chinese and Indian scholars and organised by the Chinese consulate, Kolkata. (Photo: ANI)

Ties with India must be based on peace, cooperation: Chinese envoy

'Perhaps his (Tagore's) works are more popular in China than India, if not equally popular,' Chinese Consul Ma Zhanwu...

15 March 2018 6:50 PM IST

Tripura chief minister Biplab Deb

Tagore returned Nobel Prize in protest against British Raj: Tripura CM...

Tripura CM Biplab Deb made these remarks at a function in Udaipur to mark birth anniversary of Rabindra Nath Tagore.

11 May 2018 11:29 AM IST

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee (left) pays tribute to Nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore on his 157th birth anniversary. (Photo: Abhijit Mukherjee)

Tagore's birth anniversary observed

A special prayer was also held at Udayan, the house in Shantiniketan where Tagore had celebrated his last birthday in...

10 May 2018 2:14 AM IST

Born in Kolkata in 1861, Rabindranath Tagore had reshaped Bengals literature, music and art and is regarded as one of the outstanding creative figures of the age. (Photo: File)

On Rabindranath Tagore's birth anniversary, Google goofs up his photos

Google's error is largely discussed on social media, especially in Bengal, where Tagore's birth anniversary is...

9 May 2018 5:36 PM IST

A file photo of Hermann Kallenbach (right) with his friend Mahatma Gandhi in their South Africa days.

Shimon's Quest: From Israel to India, and Lithuania, with a touch of...

Shimon Lev fell in love with India with all its faults, peculiarities and attractions.

29 March 2018 12:59 AM IST