"Tagore is the best philosopher one comes across. He understands everyone's problem and has a solution for it. His songs reflect every aspect of human emotion so perfectly," he adds.

"Even if you are going through the bleakest period of life, reading Tagore's works or listening to his songs are sure to act as a balm for your wounds".

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen once noted that even for modern Indians, Tagore was a 'towering figure,' being a 'deeply relevant and many-sided contemporary thinker.'

No wonder, therefore, that the industry called 'Tagore' continues to rule the literary world almost 77 years after his death.

Image: The gold replica of the Nobel medal is on display during the function of the Replacement of the Nobel Medallion at Shantiniketan. The medallion of Rabindranath Tagore, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, was stolen from the Vista-Bharati museum in 2003.

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