Rabindranath Tagore is the best Bengalee writer. He will perhaps be
remembered for his songs as long as the Bengalees live on this earth.
About a couple of years back I wrote short messages (one being
number 22828)about his so-called Banquet Speech, and the
Presentation Speech by Harald Hjärne, Chairman of the Nobel
Committee of the Swedish Academy, on December 10, 1913.
The so-called Banquet Speech by Rabindranath Tagore was not a speech
but a short'message'and it is as follows:
QUOTE:
I beg to convey to the Swedish Academy my grateful appreciation of
the breadth of understanding which has brought the distant near, and
has made a stranger a brother.
UNQUOTE.
As far as the Presentation Speech by Harald Hjärne, Chairman of the
Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy, on December 10, 1913 is
concerned it was confirmed in that speech that Rabindranath Tagore
was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as 'an Anglo-Indian'. The
following opening words from the speech will confirm it:
QUOTE:
In awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Anglo-Indian poet,
Rabindranath Tagore, the Academy has found itself in the happy
position of being able to accord this recognition to an author who,
in conformity with the express wording of Alfred Nobel's last will
and testament, had during the current year, written the finest
poems «of an idealistic tendency.
UNQUOTE.
The Visva Bharati, as far as I know, perhaps never published these
valuable information anywhere. Nor I found these information in any
other publication. For reference details one may visit the following
Website:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1913/press.ht
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There is no news confirming that Rabindranath Tagore was present at
the time of giving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
I just wanted to know from the Rabindranath Tagore's readers present
in this 'mukto-mona' column if they have any further information on
the subjects above.
I am sending this message for information needs without any
prejudice at all.
A. B. M. Shamsud Doulah
G.P.O. Box 351
Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
Email: shamsuddoulah@yahoo.com
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