The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukhrjee will receive the first copy of the book ‘Contemporarising Tagore and the World’ at Rashtrapati Bhavan tomorrow (May 8, 2013).
The book is a compilation of the edited versions of the papers presented at the joint Indo-Bangladesh Seminar held in Dhaka in April-May 2011 to discuss those ideas of Tagore which have contemporary relevance.
The Seminar was organized to commemorate the 150th Birthday of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. The book, a tangible result of various activities undertaken at the academic and intellectual level to commemorate the 150th Birthday of Tagore is an international collaborative effort between the Indian and Bangladeshi intellectuals, artists, poets and other authors. Scholars from not only India and Bangladesh but also China, Japan, Russia, Netherlands, Serbia, UK and Argentina have contributed to this book.
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