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Abanindranath Tagore

With the success of Tagore's ideas, he came into contact with other Asian cultural figures, such as the Japanese art historian Okakura Kakuzō and the Japanese painter Yokoyama Taikan, whose work was comparable to his own.

Balatonfüred

The hospital is built on the lake shore and is flanked by the Tagore promenade (see picture at right), named after the Nobel-laureate Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was treated here.

Bishnupur Gharana

The Dhrupad style of Bishnupur had a good deal of influence on many of the songs composed by Tagore.

Brahma Dharma

Brahmo Dharma a Bengali religious book by Debendranath Tagore ca.1848

Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish

As he prepares with his team to stage Tagore's Chitrangada, he meets Partho, Jishu Sengupta who is a drug-addict percussionist introduced to the team by the main dancer Kasturi Raima Sen.

Chitto Jetha Bhayshunyo

The English translation was composed around 1911, when Tagore was translating some of his work into English after a request from William Rothenstein.

Duško Novaković

He was a participant and guest at some of the world famous festival of poetry, and lectured on contemporary poetry in the former Yugoslavia at the University of Tagore in India, in 1984, and lectured the poetry of Vasko Popa at Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna in 2008.

Dwarkanath Tagore

Tagore's company managed huge zamindari estates spread across today's West Bengal and Odisha states in India, and in Bangladesh, besides holding large stakes in new enterprises that were tapping the rich coal seams of Bengal, running tug services between Calcutta and the mouth of the river Hooghly and transplanting Chinese tea crop to the plains of Upper Assam.

Francisco Casanovas

He also collaborated in India with the Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature Rabindranath Tagore; thus, while the Indian national anthem's lyrics are Tagore's, the harmonisation is by Casanovas.

Ganendranath Tagore

He was a student of Hindu School and when Calcutta University introduced the Entrance examination in 1857, he and Satyendranath Tagore passed out in first division.

Guo Moruo

His studies at this time focused on foreign language and literature, namely the works of: Spinoza, Goethe, Walt Whitman, and the Bengali poet Tagore.

Jana Gana Mana

King George V was scheduled to arrive in the city on 30 December and a section of the Anglo-Indian English press in Calcutta thought – and duly reported – that Tagore's anthem was a homage to the emperor.

Jatindramohan Tagore

The son of Hara Kumar Tagore (1798 – 1858) and grandson of Gopi Mohan Tagore, one of the founders of Hindu College, he belonged to the Pathuriaghata branch of the Tagore family.

Jogajog

The novel was translated by Supriya Chaudhuri (Oxford University Press, 2006) as part of the Oxford Tagore Translations.

Kathgola

the newly emerging urban Indian elites in Calcutta including notable grandees such as the Tagore and Mullick clans, with both of which he enjoyed close personal and financial relationships and who, flush with the economic gains made by Hindu merchant classes under British rule, were spearheading the Bengal Renaissance,

Kendriya Vidyalaya, Ernakulam

The students have been divided into four groups or houses: Shivaji, Tagore, Asoka and Raman.

Leonard Knight Elmhirst

In America he also met the 1913 Nobel Laureate for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore, and in November 1921 returned to India as Tagore's secretary.

In 1922, in the village of Surul (now Sriniketan) adjacent to Santiniketan, West Bengal, he set up for Tagore an Institute of Rural Reconstruction.

M. K. Binodini Devi

It was during the years just before and during World War II, at a time when she lived with her mother in the pilgrim town of Nabadwip in Bengal, that Binodini was introduced to her greatest literary influence: the Bengali literature of Saratchandra Chatterjee, Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Rabindranath Tagore and Michael Madhusudan Dutt.

Nitin Bose

Bose's first movie under Bombay Talkies banner was Naukadubi (1947), based on Tagore's novel of the same name.

Paintings of Abanindranath Tagore

Paintings of Abanindranath Tagore is a book on Abanindranath Tagore's paintings by art historian

Ananya Vajpeyi in her Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India highlights the contribution of R. Siva Kumar's Paintings of Abanindranath Tagore in foregrounding Abanindranath Tagore's art anew.

Prasanna Coomar Tagore

Prasanna Kumar Tagore (also spelt Prosunno Kumar Tagore, Prasanna Kumar Tagore) (1801–1886) was son of Gopi Mohan Tagore, one of the founders of Hindu College.

Rabindranath Tagore's political views

Today, Tagore's school is a Central University under the Government of India.

Ramanath Tagore

Ramanath Tagore (archaic spelling: Roma Nath Tagore) was one of the leading social figures in 19th century Kolkata (then Calcutta).

Sadharan Brahmo Samaj

1850 Debendranath Tagore publishes the Brahmo Dharma in English (it had been previously privately published in Bengali in 1848).

Sinha Laksmiswar

His translation of seven stories of Tagore "Malsata Ŝtono" (A hungry stone) was first published in the 1961 Serio Oriento-Okcidento.

Soumendranath Tagore

Soumendranath Tagore (1910–1974), son of Sudhindranath Tagore and grandson of Dwijendranath Tagore, was a great orator.

Sri Palee College

Inspired by Guru Dev Rabindranath Tagore a great writer, artist and an educationist of India, and his famous university at Shanthi Niketan later called Visva Bharathi University, Mr. Wilmot A. Perera, a prominent revolutionary educationist and a politician of Sri Lanka, decided to establish a similar institution in Ceylon, and invited Gurudev Tagore to lay the foundation stone for this institution, which Tagore named Sri Palee (place where the goddess of fine arts lives).

St. Patrick's Higher Secondary School

Himachal Som '61 (former Indian Ambassador to Italy, father of Vishnu Som, NDTV anchor) and husband of Dr. Reba Som, Director of Indian Council for Cultural Relations' Rabindranath Tagore Centre in Kolkata.

Sumit Ganguly

Sumit Ganguly is a Professor of Political Science at Indiana University and the currently holds that university's Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations.

Tagore Baal Niketan Sr. Sec. School, Karnal

Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian American astronaut and first Indian born woman in space is perhaps Tagore Baal Niketan's most famous alumni.

Wendy Barker

Her translations (with Saranindranath Tagore) of Nobel Prize-winning poet Rabindranath Tagore received the Sourette Diehl Fraser Award from the Texas Institute of Letters.

Zelman Cowen

He was Emeritus Professor of Law at Melbourne and the Tagore Professor of Law at the University of Calcutta.


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