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PM Modi said, "I bow to Gurudev Tagore on his birth anniversary. He was a versatile personality whose profound thoughts and writings continue to inspire".
Updated : May 07, 2016, 02:34 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid homage to Rabindranath Tagore on his 155th birth anniversary.
"I bow to Gurudev Tagore on his birth anniversary. He was a versatile personality whose profound thoughts and writings continue to inspire", the Prime Minister said.
I bow to Gurudev Tagore on his birth anniversary. He was a versatile personality whose profound thoughts & writings continue to inspire.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 7, 2016
Tagore, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 was born on May 7, 1861. He died on August 7, 1941. He was a Bengali polymath. He was a poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, educationist, social reformer, nationalist, business-manager and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Tagore was the first non-European English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for 'Gitanjali' (an offering of songs) in 1913.