“The day was when I did not keep myself in readiness for thee; and entering my heart unbidden even as one of the common crowd, unknown to me, my king, thou didst press the signet of eternity upon many a fleeting moment of my life.”
Gitanjali
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Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali polymath, poet, philosopher and the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature (1913). His Gitanjali offered the West a luminous window into Indian spirituality, and his songs and verse remain woven into the soul of Bengal.
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