Gitanjali: The ’beautiful Poetic Piety’
Gitanjali: The ’beautiful Poetic Piety’

Summary/Abstract: This year is special to us in India as it marks, (i) the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, and (ii) the completion of 100 years of the original Gitanjali (Song Offerings). Rabindranath Tagore’s long life (1861–1941) was marked by ceaseless and torrential flow of creativity manifested in the richness and variety of all kinds of literary and artistic forms. He was both a man of action and a seer, a man of royal grandeur and an ascetic. In his philosophy of life the best of the East and that of the West are reconciled into a harmonious whole. His inclusive mind aspired after the Universal Man shining in the glory of creation and joie de vivre. With the passage of time Tagore, our first Nobel Laureate, has only grown in stature and is now recognized as an increasingly significant and rich personality and a genius for all times.

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