Rabindranath Tagore (In Our Time, 7/5/15)

Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. He has been called one of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century and the greatest poet India has ever produced. His Nobel followed publication of Gitanjali, his English version of some of his Bengali poems. WB Yeats and Ezra Pound were great supporters. Tagore was born in Calcutta in 1861 and educated partly in Britain; King George V knighted him, but Tagore renounced this in 1919 following the Amritsar Massacre. A key figure in Indian nationalism, Tagore became a friend of Gandhi, offering criticism as well as support. A polymath and progressive, Tagore painted, wrote plays, novels, short stories and many songs. The national anthems of India and Bangladesh are based on his poems.
With Chandrika Kaul (Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St Andrews), Bashabi Fraser (Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University), and John Stevens
(Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS, University of London).
Producer: Simon Tillotson.

[@indranivanniasingham7050]

Great series

[@arijitpyne3435]

I am looking for an English documentary on Him in an audio visual way, like those made on Newton, Einstein and others . I am strongly proponent of the idea , Ravindra Nath was truly a global citizen, in-spite of being an Indian from Bengal province; this very fact was very much vindicated by his unified motive driven collective deeds towards India's freedom movements and having a strong connections with scholars from global circles across many fields . He infact tried to invoke his global vision atleast through the two universities RavindraBharati and VisvaBharati .

[@crazydip7776]

We proud of Netaji , ra bindranath tagore and vivekanda

[@maligordhan8382]

Here bcz of IELTS PREP