New Delhi (NVI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid tributes to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore on his 159th birth anniversary.
Taking to Twitter, PM Modi wrote: “Tributes to Gurudev Tagore on his Jayanti. Gifted in several fields, he made a strong contribution towards India’s freedom movement.
“His clarity of thought and expression were always outstanding.”
Tributes to Gurudev Tagore on his Jayanti. Gifted in several fields, he made a strong contribution towards India’s freedom movement. His clarity of thought and expression were always outstanding. pic.twitter.com/cMeVAarZ5h
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 8, 2020
Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta in 1861. He became the first Indian to win Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He is known for his literary work ‘Gitanjali’ or ‘Song Offerings’, a collection of 103 English prose poems.
Tagore is famous by many names – Gurudev, Kabiguru, Biswakabi and often referred to as “the Bard of Bengal”. From India’s ‘Jan Gan Man’ to Bangladesh’s ‘Amar Sona Bangla’, Sri Lanka’s national anthem is also based on Tagore’s poem.
