RE: [mukto-mona] Why the facts about Tagore's winning of Nobel Prize are kept secret?

Tagore died in 1941 and extensive research has been done on his life, times and works. I believe that his life was one of the most open one in all respect. But time to time people do raise questions about him and finally all controversies, if there is any, merges into one that is into his greatness. But the questions raised by this correspondent on Tagore's Nobel Prize is interesting. Is it to belittle the poet or to question his fitness to be honored as a Nobel laureate? I hope learned Mukto Mona members will answer this question.

 

Regards

Akbar Hussain

 

 

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To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
From: doulah@doulah.com
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:14:22 +0000
Subject: [mukto-mona] Why the facts about Tagore's winning of Nobel Prize are kept secret?

Rabindranath Tagore was the greatest of all great Bengali writers. But it is sad to note that the learned Bengali readers and writers kept many facts about Tagore's winning of Nobel Prize in 1913 are kept secret. Some such facts are given below:

A. Rabindranath Tagore was more than many Nobel Laureates. But his winning of the Nobel Prize was a political consolation for the Hindu terrorist movements launched in Bengal in the early days of the20th century.

B. Rabindranth Tagore was not the recommendation of the Nobel Committee. The Nobel Committee named somebody else. The name of Rabindranath Tagore was not even in the short list of the Nobel Committee.

C. Rabindranth Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize neither as a Bengalee nor as an Indian. He was awarded the prize as an "Anglo-Indian".

D. Rabindranth Tagore never made any so-called prize receiving speech.

E. Rabindranth Tagore only sent a two line accepting message.

F. The prize was accepted by the British Ambassador and it was delivered to the poet in Calcutta.

G. It appears from the information, now available, that Rabindranath Tagore was awarded Nobel Prize in consideration of his successful attempt to intermingle the Christian-Indian philosophy.

I shall very much welcome exact and objective reply from the esteemed readers of this Group.

A.B.M. Shamsud Doulah
G.P.O. Box 351
Dhaka-1000

Email: shamsuddoulah@yahoo.com

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