Tagore – a Bengali writer and poet, educator, musician and visionary was a big time traveller and his visits to the United States always raised a question about his relations with States. Between 1912 and 1930, Tagore visited the United States five times, travelling from coast to coast and receiving[Read More…]
Tag: Rabindranath Tagore
No plans to delete Tagore’s work from textbook: Union HRD Minister
Union Minister of State HRD, Mahendra Nath Pandey on Tuesday evening said the Centre does not have any plans to delete Rabindranath Tagore’s writing and works of other renowned personalities from NCERT text books. Pandey echoed Union School Education and Literacy Ministry Secretary Anil Swarup, who had earlier in the[Read More…]
Removing Tagore from textbook is insane: Mamata Banerjee
Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee reacted on removing Rabindranath Tagore from the text book. She said, “How can somebody even think of removing Tagore from school books. This is rubbish.” The former head of RSS education wing Vidya Bharati, Dina Nath Batra wants the National Council of Educational[Read More…]
RSS ideologue wants NCERT to remove Tagore, Urdu, Gujarat riots from text books
Former head of RSS education wing Vidya Bharati, Dina Nath Batra wants the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to remove Tagore, Urdu words and a sentence on Gujarat riots, among other things from school textbooks. In a five-page letter to NCERT, the RSS ideologue made the recommendation[Read More…]