Tel Aviv/IBNS: The Israel government has named a street in Tel Aviv city after Nobel prize-winner Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore.
The Israel Embassy in India tweeted: "We honor #RabindranathTagore today and every day, as we named a street in Tel Aviv in memory of his valuable contribution to mankind."
India on Friday marked the 159th birth anniversary of Tagore.
His birthday is celebrated on May 8 or 9 after Visva-Bharati University, established by him in Bolpur town (Santiniketan) of West Bengal, decided to celebrate the birth anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore on the actual date of his birth, Boishakh 25, scrapping a rule ushered in by his predecessor - that of celebrating the bard's birth anniversary on Poila Boishakh.
We honor #RabindranathTagore today and every day, as we named a street in Tel Aviv in memory of his valuable contribution to mankind. pic.twitter.com/ZH826Ot0aP
— Israel in India (@IsraelinIndia) May 7, 2020
Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. He authored the Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verses".
Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
He modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures.
His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays dealt in topics ranging from political and personal.
Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are some of his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation.
His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's 'Jana Gana Mana' and Bangladesh's 'Amar Shonar Bangla'.
Image: Israel In India Twitter page
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