The memories of the visit and stay of the Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore in Chandannagar and Chinsurah are still fondly cherished by the residents of both towns to this day.
In our globalized age when higher education is on a dangerously slippery slope with government highhandedness creating distress among teachers and students alike, when academic and creative freedom is up against walls of indifference and hate, it is heartening to hear Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore delivering his first lecture in English in Madras on 9 February 1919.
Mamata Banerjee took on the Viswa-Bharati authorities and the Centre today for continuing with its abrasive and arrogant show and disregarding the founder of Visva-Bharati, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore.
The 1930s decade was a period in which Tagore perceived Swamiji and his Guru in a parlance that was altogether different from his perception about them before. In 1935, he gave a message in the form of a poem to Ramakrishna Mission, paying obeisance to Sri Ramakrishna on the occasion of his birth centenary celebration. On 3 March 1937 he famously participated in the concluding function of the celebration
The PM expressed satisfaction over a feeling of responsibility amongst citizens while taking part in festivities amid the Covid-19 pandemic
The BJP’s leaning on Tagore is slowly appearing crystal clear as its district unit in Nadia launched a massive membership drive from their party office in Krishnagar by singing one of Tagore's popular songs – ‘E Desher Mati Amar’.
As the Congress was divided between supporters of Gandhi and Bose, Tagore advocated the latter’s cause with his write up Deshanayak or The Leader of the Country in May 1939: “I am a Bengali poet; on behalf of Bengal I hail you as the leader of the nation”.
Rabindranath Tagore has remained overwhelmingly relevant in the modern-day age of human rights
