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Hindustan Times, April 19, 2013
...The road to Visva-Bharati is paved with good intentions. But Rabindranath Tagore’s expansive project of a unique institution of learning in Santiniketan has been underwhelming despite many of its illustrious alumni and faculty members, overwhelmingly...
Sify, April 18, 2013
...head is held high. Knowledge is free. Visva- Bharati, India's first open school founded by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore in 1921 with his Nobel Prize money, combines education with ecology, culture, arts, heritage, globalisation and sustainability....
The Independent, April 17, 2013
...- Jamal al-Afghani, a political activist who advocated pan-Islamic unity, Liang Qichao, a Chinese scholar and reformist and Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali writer who became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. These...
Abu Dhabi National, April 15, 2013
...looks at the ways in which the Iranian Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, China’s Liang Qichao and India’s Rabindranath Tagore all foresaw a modern “Asian” world that didn’t necessarily have to be framed by western attitudes and culture. Reviewing...
Himalayan Times, April 13, 2013
...the most poetic remnants of libertine India and a reason for the famous rift between Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, continues to inspire me. The ancient Kharjjura-vahaka is one of the most prominent manifestations of unique Indian architecture...
Sify, April 11, 2013
...1855. The previous in the state upgraded it as a university in 2010. Its alumni include Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Satyajit Ray, Marxist leader Jyoti Basu and India's first president Rajendra...
Deutsche Welle, April 11, 2013
...include Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Heiner Müller, Peter Handke, Max Frisch, Theodor W. Adorno, Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Paul Sartre, Rabindranath Tagore and Pablo Picasso. Global publishing concept "You often feel that you have to publish people who...
Bangladesh Daily Star, January 19, 2013
...Khusro and Mirza Ghalib. As I sit listening to melodies on Kolkata's Tara Music channel, I recall Rabindranath Tagore's song, 'Tomar pujar chhale tomaye bhulei thaki”, and Swami Vivekananda's insights into life and living that millions in this troubled...
Frontier Post, January 18, 2013
...are well known to the Pakistanis. Mr Sumit Ganguly is a Professor of Political Science and holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations and is the Director of Research of the Center on American and Global Security at Indiana...
The Hindu, January 18, 2013
...had lost self-confidence totally, the President said 1860-70 was a momentous decade for India, with the births of Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Vivekananda (1863) and Mahatma Gandhi (1869). "I had a desire to be on this sacred soil. I feel blessed to be...
Individual.com, January 18, 2013
...If no one heeds your call/Walk alone, walk alone, walk alone... -- Rabindranath Tagore A popular visual metaphor of Indian wisdom is that of a sage meditating in splendid solitude, in a forest or on a mountain, far removed from the messy world...
Individual.com, January 18, 2013
...If no one heeds your call/Walk alone, walk alone, walk alone... -- Rabindranath Tagore A popular visual metaphor of Indian wisdom is that of a sage meditating in splendid solitude, in a forest or on a mountain, far removed from the messy world...
The Hindu, January 18, 2013
...with Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet respectively, all in Bengali. "After 2011 (the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore), there was a lot of Tagore happening. So much so that at a point it became disturbing. Not all works were tributes to...
Deccan Herald, January 18, 2013
...affairs in the country when Vivekananda was born in 1863. "It was a very momentous decade. In 1861 Rabindranath (Tagore) was born, in 1863 Swami Vivekananda was born. And in 1869 Mahatma Gandhi was born. But what was the state of affairs?... Even...

