India Post released a set of 2 stamp and a Miniature Sheet to commemorate 150 years of Rabindranath Tagore birth anniversary.
Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 in Calcutta (now Kolkata). He was a poet, philosopher, musician, writer, and educationist.He was popularly called as Gurudev and his songs were popularly known as Rabindrasangeet.The Indian national anthem " the Jana Gana Mana" is composed by him, he is also the writer of the national anthem of Bangladesh "Amar Shonar Bangla".Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for his collection of poems, Gitanjali, in 1913, the first Asian to win a Nobel prize in Literature.He was the founder of Viswa Bharati and Santiniketan.
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