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Rabindranath Tagore: Nobel Laureate Died 69 Years Ago Today

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Laureate and the first universally acclaimed Bengali poet died 69 years ago today.  Cultural fora and celebrations in India and Bangladesh mark this day every year.  And though there’s much to say about his accomplishments, I can say little about the man or the tremendous impact he’s had on Bengali letters.

Therefore, I hope you’ll read what Professor Zillur Rahman Siddiqui has to say about Tagore’s, life, death and immortality.  You can find his honorific piece here.

 

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Faheem Haider

Faheem Haider is a political analyst, writer and artist. He holds advanced research degrees in political economy, political theory and the political economy of development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and New York University. He also studied political psychology at Columbia University. During long stints away from his beloved Washington Square Park, he studied peace and conflict resolution and French history and European politics at the American University in Washington DC and the University of Paris, respectively.

Faheem has research expertise in democratic theory and the political economy of democracy in South Asia. In whatever time he has to spare, Faheem paints, writes, and edits his own blog on the photographic image and its relationship to the political narrative of fascist, liberal and progressivist art.

That work and associated writing can be found at the following link: http://blackandwhiteandthings.wordpress.com