Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (Bangla: ??????????? ?????, Robindronath ?hakur) (May 7, 1861 – August 7, 1941) (in the Bangla Calendar, 25 Baishakh, 1268 – 22 Srabon, 1348), also called Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo philosopher and nationalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, becoming the first Asian to

Loss and replacement of the Nobel Prize

In 2004, thieves broke into Shantiniketan in India and took off with the Nobel Prize Medal that had been displayed in the museum. Despite an extensive search, authorities failed to retrieve the medal. The medal was later replaced by a new set awarded by the Nobel comittee.

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