Gokhale's life was devoted to serving the nation, and it will always inspire the countrymen, the prime minister said. The prime minister also paid tributes to freedom fighter Gopal Krishna Gokhale and celebrated warrior king Maharana Pratap, both of whom were born on this day. The Nobel committeeР’В had said in a statement thatР’В Tagore wasР’В honoured withР’В the prestigious prize 'because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West'. HeР’В became the firstР’В Asian to win the Nobel prize for literature in 1913 for his epoch-making collection of poems, Gitanjali.Р’В Most of his writings were in Bengali, later translated into English to make them accessible to a broader audience. Tagore was a playwright, philosopher, composer and poet. In Santiniketan, Tagore's abode, elaborate celebrations mark the day with the students and teachers of Visva-Bharati paying homage to the founder.

On Rabindra Jayanti, the peopleР’В of West Bengal hold cultural events to celebrate the social reformer's enduring legacy. May his exemplary ideals keep giving us strength and inspiration to build the India he dreamt of,' he said, paying tributes to the man of many talents. 'On Tagore Jayanti, I bow to the great Gurudev Tagore. Tagore was born on 7 May but his birthday is celebrated in West Bengal, where he was born and is revered, according to the traditional Bengali calendar, and this year it falls on Sunday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid tributes to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore on his 160th birth anniversary.

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