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Rabindranath Tagore: Voice of Universal Artist

He debated the deepest nature of reality with Einstein. He was championed by Yeats and Pound to become the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Rabindranath Tagore was a polymath — a writer and a painter, a philosopher and a musician, and a social innovator — but much of his poetry and prose is virtually untranslatable (or inaccessibly translated) for modern minds. We pull back the “dusty veils” that have hidden his memory from history. Equipped w ith magnificent physique and immense energy, with an active mind and a most fertile imagination, he remained to the end of his long life, even when his body began to fail him, sensitive to new ideas and to every form of natural beauty. His reaction to the atmosphere immediately around him was strangely intuitive. From adolescence on he poured forth a-never-failing stream of artistic creation in poems, dramas, novels and essays; in music, in song, with music and words to match one another, and finally...