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Rabindranath Tagore - Far and Near

  Right opposite the main gates of Tel Aviv University's sprawling campus is Rehov Tagore. The street is named after Tagore, as decided by the Tel Aviv Municipality in 1961 to commemorate the centenary of his birth. 

   Rabindranath Tagore Street in Berlin was also opened in 1961 to commemorate his birth centenary. Rabindranath visited Germany three times, in 1921,1926 and in 1930.

  Sheltered among the foliage of St Stephen’s Green public park  stands a monument to a man often referred to as “the Bard of Bengal”.

  Erected exactly 150 years after Tagore’s birth, and commissioned by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, the bronze bust acknowledges the poet’s literary influence – which was notable not only in Bengal but also in Ireland.

  In 1916 when Rabindranath Tagore visited Japan for the first time, he met many Korean students at the country’s universities and got introduced to the uniqueness of their culture. Tagore never visited South Korea, but he mentioned Korea as the “lamp of the east”, and that made a huge impact in the minds of Koreans. In 2011, on the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary, a bronze bust of the laureate was unveiled in Daehangro, Seoul’s cultural heart. It enjoys the rare distinction of being the first bust of any foreign dignitary or writer to be installed in South Korea’s capital.