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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo: AP)

Pak PM Imran Khan trolled on Twitter for posting Tagore's quote as...

During a visit to Iran in April, Khan had made a similar faux pas when he said that Japan and Germany shared borders.

20 Jun 2019 4:09 AM

Before the match began that is during the national anthem the Indian and Bangladeshi crowd stood together and lauded Tagore for creating such heart-touching anthem. Even the netizens took to social media and recalled Tagore for penning down Jana Gana Mana and Amar Sonar Bangla. (Photo:AP)

ICC CWC'19: India vs Bangladesh; divided by British, united by...

Tagored penned down Jana Gana Mana on January 24, 1950 and Amar Sonar Bangla in 1905 during Bengal's first partition.

2 July 2019 6:25 PM

Rajinikanth and Ashish Sharma

My freedom, my choice

As we celebrate the 73rd year of Independence, we look at the privilege that most of us still have and often take for...

14 Aug 2019 6:30 PM

Life Happens, by Malachi Edwin Vethamani Maya Press Rs 333.

The spoils of separation, the price of disentangling'

Simplicity of language and phrase making are the hallmarks of Malachi Edwin Vethamani's poetry.

1 Aug 2019 8:10 PM

Being qua being

On the subject of life

In this exhibition, recent graduates of a prestigious visual arts institute presented their fresh outlook on the trials...

5 Sept 2019 6:51 PM

Plassey The Battle that Changed the Course of Indian History, By Sudeep Chakravarti Aleph pp.695; Rs 799.

Siraj-ud-daulah at Plassey: A critical review

Take George Bruce Malleson's The Decisive Battles of India from 1746 to 1849, which is considered required reading for...

16 Jan 2020 8:59 PM

The Great Indian Railways, by Arup K Chatterjee Bloomsbury pp.376; Rs 479.

Rail tracks, objects, memory, history

My walking point started at the outer limit of Carnoules village, at times towards Aix, and on other days towards the...

16 Jan 2020 8:53 PM

Cover page of The Light of Asia

Book review | Strange life of a poem that revealed Buddha to world

Jairam Ramesh's Light of Asia, there can be no doubt, is an altogether satisfying and successful experiment

10 Oct 2021 4:51 AM

Remembering Tagore, Nazrul Islam in East African nations

Bongo Shongho is celebrating the works of Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam by organizing an extravaganza on the annual...

5 July 2021 5:20 AM

No Indian after Rabindranath Tagore in 1913 has got the Nobel for Literature. (Photo: Nobel Prize)

Pavan K Varma | Are the criteria to award Nobel wholly objective?

Mother Teresa got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Only next year did we give her the Bharat Ratna

16 Oct 2022 2:22 AM

This file photo taken on October 14, 2018 shows soldiers from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force taking part in a military review at the Ground Self-Defence Forces Asaka training ground in Asaka, Saitama prefecture. - Japan announced on December 16, 2022 its biggest defence overhaul in decades, hiking spending, reshaping its military command and acquiring new missiles to tackle the threat from China. (Photo: AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Will Japan's rearmament impact India's...

Japan's decision to strengthen its military will have definite implications for the Quad -- comprising the US, Japan,...

20 Dec 2022 6:35 PM

But Tagore was a staunch nationalist at heart, a man who had composed the tune to Vande Mataram which animated the protests against the partition of Bengal in 1905.

Raja Karthikeya | The secret in 'Jana Gana Mana'

Tagore was apparently asked by a British friend to write a eulogy to King George V during his visit to India in 1911

25 Jan 2022 11:15 AM