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Down Memory Lane: Indian Nobel Prize Winners
BANGALORE: It’s been long known that Indians are a talented lot making a mark around the globe with the works they do and carry on with great pride and heart. As Kailash satyarthi wins the Nobel Peace Prize this year along with Pakistan’s Malala, Rediff compiles a list of Indians/India-Origin awardees making a mark in the Indian History. Let’s walk down the memory lane and have a look at the Nobel Prize winners making India proud.
#Rabindranath Tagore
A humanitarian and social and religious reformer, Tagore disliked the British Raj in India.
As a patriot, he composed the music and lyrics for India’s National Anthem, “Jana-Gana-Mana”. Rabindranath Tagore was Asia’s first Nobel Prize winner.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913 for his book Gitanjali. As well as being a Seer poet Tagore’s achievements included notable contributions in the fields of music, literature, plays, art and education reformer.
The Nobel Committed gave Tagore the prize saying: “ because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West”
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