The Bard of Bengal
Rabindranath Tagore was one of India's greatest poets. He died in August 1941
Witness History · BBC World Service
August 19, 20229m 0s
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Show Notes
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.
Farhana Haider spoke to Professor Bashabi Fraser, Director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies, in 2017.
Photo: June 1921, Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore in London. Credit: Getty Images