Tagore’s 161st birthday celebrated in Kathmandu
New Delhi: The Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre (SVCC), Embassy of India in Nepal, and Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kathmandu, commemorated Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s 161st birthday at the Indian Embassy in the Nepalese capital on Monday.
They held the ceremony as part of the ongoing INDIA@75 AZADI KA AMRIT MAHOTSAV festivities.
The SVCC and students put together Rabindra Sangeet performances, while the KV students performed songs and dances based on Tagore’s works.
We observe the Tagore Jayanti on the 25th day of Boishakh, which falls on the 7th of May in the English calendar.
Tagore was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize (Literature) in 1913 for his poetry collection book Gitanjali, published a year earlier in London.
His works include the Indian National Anthem, Jana Gana Mana.
(Venkatesh)
