New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid tributes to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore on his 159th birth anniversary.
PM Modi tweeted,” Tributes to Gurudev Tagore on his Jayanti. Gifted in several fields, he made a strong contribution towards India’s freedom movement. His clarity of thought and expression were always outstanding.”
Tributes to Gurudev Tagore on his Jayanti. Gifted in several fields, he made a strong contribution towards India’s freedom movement. His clarity of thought and expression were always outstanding. pic.twitter.com/cMeVAarZ5h
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 8, 2020
Tagore reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse” of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
