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Turkey honours Rabindranath Tagore

Turkey on Thursday named an avenue in capital Ankara after one of India's greatest poets and philosophers, Rabindranath Tagore.Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, on the third day of his visit to...

Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel Prize stolen

In a burglary at the Uttarayan complex of Visva Bharati University in Shantiniketan, the Nobel Prize medal, a watch, a bangle and important citations belonging to Rabindranath Tagore were stolen on...

Rabindranath Tagore's Bangladesh legacy lives on

An antique house in a sub-district in Bangladesh holds a heritage that reconnects the nation with India. Rabindranath Tagore’s ancestral home in Shahzadpur holds not only...

Congress accuses Modi of insulting Tagore, 1937 CWC over Vande Mataram row

Stepping up its attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Vande Mataram row, the Congress on Sunday claimed that the PM has "insulted" the Congress Working Committee of 1937, which issued a...

Tagore Letters Fetch Rs 5.9 Cr

'Most of Tagore's important correspondence is held in institutional archives. So offerings like this in the public domain are few and far between.' IMAGE: Rabindrath Tagore, Boulogne, France,...

No plan to replace face of Mahatma Gandhi on banknotes: RBI

Dismissing reports, the Reserve Bank on Monday said there is no proposal to replace the face of Mahatma Gandhi with that of others on currency notes. In a statement, the central bank said there...

Is Bengal ready for re-industrialisation?

"Sudhu bigha dui, chilo mor bhui, aar sab-i geche rine, Babu balilen, "Bujhecho Upen, e jami loibo kine."(After losing everything in debt, I had only two bighas of land left. But the Babu said,...

Budget goes paperless; Sitharaman quotes Tagore

From Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman reading out her 110-minute speech from a tablet to seating arrangements in tune with pandemic times, there were quite a few firsts during the presentation...

What is Vijay Mallya and Rahul Dravid's Kolkata connection?

With clientele ranging from Vijay Mallya to Rahul Dravid, Kolkata-based designer Sharbari Datta is trying to revive the classic combination of dhoti and kurta. In popular culture a well-draped...

Brand Bengal seeks to ride piggyback on SRK

Bengal Leads -- at least in a promotional campaign starring the ultimate dream merchant, Shah Rukh Khan. The video has all the trappings of a make-believe Bollywood masala movie -- stunning...

The Dharmendra I Remember

A hero with a heart, and remained one till the end. IMAGE: Dharmendra. Photograph: Kind courtesy Film History Pics/Instagram "No conversation with the actor, a Sher Dil, who in the 1976 film Maa...

Spotted: Sharmila Tagore in London

Readers Suman & Sumana Bhattacharya are part of London's culture scene. At a function about Rabindranath Tagore, the husband and wife got to meet Sharmila Tagore, who was in London for a recitation...

Merchant Ivory will capture Tagore on film

Ismail Merchant and James Ivory have their sights set on Rabindranath Tagore.According to Kolkata's The Telegraph, the celebrated filmmaking duo's yet-untitled project is a drama based on the...

'Corruption Is No Longer A Bad Word'

'When India opened its doors to the world, moving away from an agrarian to a market economy, everything, whether life or love, was commodified.' IMAGE: Nana Patekar and Rekha in Yatra. In the...

Junaid Khan's Maharaj To Release On...

Photograph: Kind courtesy Netflix India/Instagram Maharaj, which marks Junaid Khan's acting debut, releases next month. Taking to Instagram, Director Siddharth P Malhotra shared the first...

'This Team Has Been Picked Till The Next World Cup, So We Have To Improve Our Fielding'

Why did SKY give Bangladesh's fielding coach a hug? IMAGE: Varun Chakaravarthy celebrates taking a wicket. Photograph: ACC Almost every member of the Indian playing eleven has a tattoo. Is it a...

That Last Selfie With Dilip Doshi

Dilip Doshi, who passed away on June 23, was celebrated not only as one of India's finest left-arm spinners but also as a cricketer of rare character and amazing qualities, recalls veteran cricket...

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