Nobel Prize For Rabindranath Tagore

In the year 1913, on this day, Nobel prize committee announced the
name of Rabindranath as the recipient of Nobel prize in
literature.
When Rabindranath went to England in the year 1912, eminent English
artist Rothenstein loved 'Geetanjali' - the collection of poems by
Tagore in English. He referred
Tagore to the then poets W. B. Yeats, May Sinclaire, Ezra Pound etc to read
the book 'Song Offerings' in English.
And Tagore received the Nobel prize for the English translation of his
immortal book of poems 'Geetanjali' which later translated in many
other languages. --
A. B.