Press Release
No. 24
10 May 2010
A Tribute to Rabindranath Tagore
To
commemorate the birth anniversary of Gurudev
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May), a function will be organized at the premises of
the Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture
(MACIC) at 23, Talaat Harb St., Downtown, Cairo on Friday, 14 May 2010 at 7 p.m. The
programme will include recitation of Tagore’s poems, rendering of Rabindra sangeet and dance. Light
refreshments will be served at the end of the function.
Rabindranath
Tagore (1861-1941) was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1913. He was a master of
several literary forms – he was a poet, a novelist, a short-story writer and a
playwright. His contributions reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late
19th and early 20th century. Tagore is perhaps the
world’s only writer to have composed the national anthems of two countries:
India and Bangladesh. In the evening of his life, he also took to painting.
Tagore was also an educationist, a national leader and a peripatetic
internationalist who visited many countries including Egypt.
For further details, please contact the Centre at:
Tel: 23933396 / 23960071; Fax: 23936572; e-mail: macic@indembcairo.com
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