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The Bard of Bengal



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


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