Overview
- Rabindra Jayanti, which fell Thursday, prompted features that marked Rabindranath Tagore’s 165th birth anniversary.
- Hindustan Times highlighted the poem Where the mind is without fear from Gitanjali as a call for free thought and inner courage during colonial rule.
- Tagore, often called the Bard of Bengal, won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature for Gitanjali, becoming the first Asian laureate.
- News18 profiled Jorasanko Thakurbari in North Kolkata, now the Rabindra Bharati Museum on the Rabindra Bharati University campus, with preserved rooms, manuscripts, and the room where he spent his final days.
- Reports also recalled his wider legacy, including thousands of songs and novels, composing the national anthems of India and Bangladesh, and renouncing his knighthood in 1919 after the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.