Political leaders in India paid tributes to the luminary Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rabindranath Tagore on his birth anniversary. Union minister for road, transport and highways Nitin Gadkari remembered the “Indian Polymath” to mark Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti. “Remembering Indian Polymath – poet, writer, philosopher, social reformer, Nobel Laureate and composer of our National Anthem Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore ji on his birth anniversary,” Gadkari wrote on Twitter.
Meanwhile, the official page of the Nobel Prize on Twitter is “celebrating the anniversary of the birth of a true great Rabindranath Tagore”.
Taking to Twitter, the Nobel Prize wrote, “We’re celebrating the anniversary of the birth of a true great: Rabindranath Tagore, who was born #OnThisDay in 1861 in Calcutta, India. The first non-European literature laureate, he was awarded the #NobelPrize “because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse…”
