Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali Special Edition To Be Released

To mark Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary and next year’s centenary of winning Nobel Prize for literature – Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali is all set to come in a new avatar.

The union ministry of culture is going to release the special edition of Gitanjali for Indian embassies and foreign dignitaries.

In 1913 Rabindranath won the Nobel Prize for literature for Gitanjali.

The original notebook in which Tagore wrote the poems  is currently with the Harvard University. Although Indian government had approached them to buy the rights of the same but Harvard University declined the request.  The cultural ministry now going to print a duplicate edition of the original notebook, promising to be “as near to the original as possible”.

This special edition will not be available in the market, it would be only distributed among emminent libraries across the world.

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