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West Coast Tagore Festival 2013Tagore, b.May 7, 1861- d.August 7 1941,  Indian poet, short-story writer, song composer, novelist, playwright, essayist, and painter.  Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and theContinueContinue reading “Event: Tagore Festival”