August 6, 2023 12:31 PM

Rabindranath Tagore's 82nd death anniversary being observed in Bangladesh

Rabindranath Tagore's 82nd death anniversary is being observed in Bangladesh today. According to the Gregorian calendar, Rabindranath died at the age of 80 on August 7 in 1941. But in Bangladesh, his death anniversary is observed on Sraban 22 of the Bengali calendar. Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European poet to win the Nobel Prize for literature. He won it for the English translation of "Gitanjali", a collection of poems in 1913. Tagore has the rare honour to write a ...