Nobel Prize Winners in India: From Rabindranath Tagore, Mother Teresa to Amartya Sen, here is the full listThe Nobel Prize recognizes outstanding global contributions in various fields, with several Indians achieving this honor. Key laureates inc...
07 Oct, 2024, 04.26 PM IST
Poet Sukrita Paul Kumar bags Tagore Literary PrizeFounded in 2018 by US-based publisher Peter Bundalo, the award is a platform for world peace, literature, art, education and human rights.
21 Dec, 2023, 11.37 AM IST
Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose, CM Mamata Banerjee pay tribute to Rabindranath TagoreWest Bengal Governor Dr CV Ananda Bose and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday paid tribute to Rabindranath Tagore on his 162nd birth...
09 May, 2023, 02.07 PM IST
Kolkata gears up for first meeting of Global Partnership for Financial InclusionThe keynote address will be delivered by H.M Queen Máxima of Netherlands, UNSGSA and an opening video on Financial Inclusion will be shown....
08 Jan, 2023, 06.41 PM IST
India, Bangladesh jointly celebrate birth anniversary of Tagore, Nazrul in ChinaA large number of people attended the "Rabindra-Nazrul Jayanti" event organised on Saturday to celebrate the 161st birth anniversary of Tag...
12 Jun, 2022, 04.45 PM IST
View: And the award being returned is coming from...We all know about Rabindranath Tagore returning his knighthood in 1919 for a very specific reason: the violence unleashed in Jallianwala Ba...
29 Jan, 2022, 11.01 PM IST
On Rabindranath Tagore's birth anniversary, a reading list to remember the legendWhile it is impossible to pick a favourite among Gurudev's works, here's a list to get you started.
07 May, 2021, 01.22 PM IST
Sweden backs India's bid for entry into Missile Technology Control RegimeSweden, a key member of the Missile Technology Control Regime, has backed India's bid for entry into the elite group of countries.
11 Jul, 2018, 05.09 PM IST
Friendship and love: A glimpse into Rabindranath Tagore's personal lifeTagore admired Mahatma Gandhi as a political leader and a person.
07 May, 2018, 03.47 PM IST
Signed book by Rabindranath Tagore sells for $700 at an auction in USSigned on a prefatory page in fountain pen by Tagore, the book was published by The Macmillan Company in 1916.
13 Mar, 2018, 01.20 PM IST
Signed hardcover copy of Rabindranath Tagore's 'The King of the Dark Chamber' up for auctionThe book is the English translation of his famous Bengali play 'Raja'.
06 Mar, 2018, 06.23 PM IST
Why 'Padmaavat' connection to history or Malik Muhammad Jayasi’s poem is flimsyBhansali veers from the original poem — and he has every right to do so — but then he should claim everything in his film as his own.
04 Feb, 2018, 10.55 AM IST
Does the Nobel Prize for Literature box Bob Dylan's art into the 'literary' coop?Dylan shouldn't have got the Nobel. By seeing him as a 'literary' great is to confine him terribly.
14 Oct, 2016, 01.19 PM IST
Amitav Ghosh's Flood of Fire: When opium filled India Inc's coffersAmitav Ghosh said that Mumbai owed its prosperity to the opium trade and that most of the prominent business families in India made their m...
17 Jun, 2015, 11.21 AM IST
Why Patrick Modiano winning the Nobel in Literature would exasperate someBy picking the French writer for the Literature Nobel, the Swedish Academy wants us to choose something on the menu most of us haven’t trie...
12 Oct, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
- Girish Karnad not the only one to aver that some Nobel laureates are undeserving
He would not be alone in pointing out that Nobel selectors often fall short of expectations when it comes to choosing laureates.
12 Nov, 2012, 04.44 AM IST
Why competent Indian writers have been ignored by Nobel Prize selectors?Whether it is their ignorance of Indian-languages literature or a simple rebuff, it is by all means scandalous.
18 Oct, 2012, 06.29 AM IST