Rabindranath Tagore
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2017
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In August 1941 one of the greatest poets India has ever produced died. Known as the "Bard of Bengal" Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize for Literature and has been called one of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century. Farhana Haider and has been listening to material from the BBC archives and hearing from Professor Bashabi Fraser, Director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies.
Photo June 1921, Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore in London. Credit: Getty Images
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| 1:09.6 | people who are there and today we go back to August 1941 and the death of one of the greatest |
| 1:15.2 | poets India has ever produced, Rabindranat Tagore. He was the first non-European to win a |
| 1:21.1 | Nobel Prize for literature and has been called one of the |
| 1:24.0 | outstanding thinkers of the 20th century. I'm Frahanahiva and I've been listening |
| 1:29.0 | to material from the BBC Archives. the voice of Robin |
| 1:38.0 | Robin Drena Nattagore singing the voice of Robin-Renat Tugor singing in Bengali |
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