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Aug 2017
10m 26s

Rabindranath Tagore

Bbc World Service
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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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