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Nobel Prize in Literature: The firsts

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The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards at the international level. The award honours academic, cultural and/or scientific advances. Literature was one of the five categories established according to the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish polymath, in 1895. The other four categories were physics, chemistry, peace and medicine. The first in the world to receive the…

Tagore’s pseudonym and his writings

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All his songs written in Brajabuli, the language of Brajobhumi, like Sawano Gagane Ghor Ghanoghata, Gahana Kusuma Kunja Majhe were all written under the pseudonym Bhanusingho. These have been compiled under the title Bhanusingho Thakurer Padabali, that is, the ‘Songs of Bhanusingho Thakur’. It is a collection of Vaishnava lyrics composed by Rabindranath Tagore.

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Nobel Prize in Literature: The firsts

Tagore’s pseudonym and his writings