150th birth anniversary of a great poet

Tagore was an artist, a musician, a novelist, a playwright and a poet. His work Gitanjali won for him, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He wrote the national anthems of two countries, India and Bangladesh and was the founder of Visva-Bharati University.


"The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps — does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning."

"In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of Him that is formless."

- Tagore, Gitanjali