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PM, Sonia Gandhi pay floral tribute to Tagore in Delhi | | Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi paid floral tribute to Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore as part of celebrations to mark his 150th birth anniversary in New Delhi on Tuesday. Among the others present at the event were Finance Minister
Pranab Mukherjee and Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar. Parliamentarians also offered
flowers before Tagore's painting. Meanwhile, artistes in Kolkata wowed the audience
with Rabindra Sangeet as a tribute to Tagore on Tuesday. One of the organisers
of the event, Swaminathan Pillai, said participants from all over the state have
participated in the event to pay homage to the Nobel Laureate. "More then 300
students and other participants from all over Bengal, all the reputed legendaries
and other persons who do respect Rabindranath Tagore, will give their homage to
this great poet or composer or lyricist or you can say the greatest person of
the modern song of Bengal," said Pillai. The visitors at the event said Tagore
made them proud with his works. "We are proud of Rabindranath Tagore, his works
of poetry, music and literature is famous across the world and has made us proud.
He was the father of the modern music," said Kumar Shambhu, a visitor at the event.
The yearlong celebrations witnessed elaborate programmes on the multi faceted
genius Tagore- a poet, writer, painter, musician and philosopher par excellence.
Exhibitions of Rabindranath's paintings, musical soirees, seminars, workshops,
release of commemorative publications, coins and joint productions and performances
of dances and dramas, based on the stories and songs written by Rabindranath were
organized across India as part of the celebrations. Rabindranath Tagore was a
multifaceted genius whose creativity spanned every form of artistic expression.
His concerns ranged from global and universal ones to practical and mundane issues.
He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
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