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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and one of the foremost figures of the Bengal Renaissance. In 1913, Tagore became the first Indian and non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A significant moulder of culture within Bengal and the India…
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s prose, his short stories are perhaps the most highly regarded; he is indeed credited with originating the Bengali-language version of the genre. His works are frequently noted for their rhythmic, optimistic, and lyrical nature. Such stories mostly borrow from the lives of common people. Tagore
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2026· 23 entries
News On AIR: 165th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore Observed with Cultural Fervour in Tripura
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“s more politically charged compositions,”
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“s prose, his short stories are perhaps the most highly regarded; he is indeed credited with originating the Bengali-language version of the genre. His works are frequently noted for their rhythmic, optimistic, and lyrical nature. Such stories mostly borrow from the lives of common people. Tagore”
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MILENIO: Ofrenda de canciones: tres poemas de Rabindranath Tagore
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MILENIO: Noticias de Rabindranath Tagore en Milenio
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Newsonair: 165th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore Observed with Cultural Fervour in Tripura
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The Times of India: Quote of the day by Rabindranath Tagore: "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we…" - a lesson on preparation, patience and being ready when opportunity arrives
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Newsonair: Bangladesh observes 165th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore with nationwide tributes | Akashvani News
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The Daily Star: Manikganj hosts cultural programme commemorating Rabindranath Tagore
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reactormag.com: Sheherazade's Revenge: Rabindranath Tagore's "The Hungry Stones"
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thecitizen.in: Rabindranath Tagore Unparalleled
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Mshale: Stories By Rabindranath Tagore | Konkal | He Never Believed In Ghosts… Until Room No. 21 Paola Caruso (tA50WcWTYG)
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Artsy: Rabindranath Tagore - Articles
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dailyasianage.com: Rabindranath Tagore’s Outlook on Birth and Death
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Turkmenportal.com: A cultural event was held in Ashgabat to commemorate the 165th anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore
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bssnews.net: Death anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore observed in Manikganj
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Mshale: Stories By Rabindranath Tagore | Ep.17 | Dui Bon - Part 1 | Two Sisters, One Forbidden Love Grant Dawson (DSUidxWcpE)
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Social News XYZ: Paschim Medinipur: Girl pays floral tribute to Rabindranath Tagore #Gallery
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TRIPURA STAR NEWS: Rabindranath Tagore Will Remain Relevant As Long As Humanity Is Cherished In The World : Higher Education Minister Kishor Barman.
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Telegraph India: Rabindranath Tagore to Satyajit Ray, a trail of autographs displayed at Nehru Children’s Museum
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Social News XYZ: Kolkata: Suvendu Adhikari pays floral tribute to Rabindranath Tagore #Gallery
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daily-sun.com: Iti Rabindranath celebrates Tagore’s timeless legacy - daily-sun.com
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2025· 1 entry
India TV: A look at Rabindranath Tagore's contribution to the Indian film industry | Birth Anniversary Special
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2024· 11 entries
Telugu Post rated the claim “Extremists tore down a statue of Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh during the recent violence” False.
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FACTLY rated the claim “Visuals showing the vandalized statue of Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh amid the ongoing 2024 unrest in the country” MISLEADING.
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Visuals show Rabindranath Tagore statues being vandalised amid the ongoing violence in Bangladesh.” Misleading.
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Telugu Post rated the claim “PM Narendra Modi received a portrait of Rabindranath Tagore upside down” False.
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The Quint rated the claim “PM Narendra Modi holds Rabindranath Tagore's portrait upside down.” False.
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NewsMobile rated the claim “PM Modi disrespected and accepted an upside-down portrait of Rabindra Nath Tagore from a Bharatiya Janata Party member in Barrackpore, West Bengal.” Misleading.
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News Mobile rated the claim “PM Modi disrespected and accepted an upside-down portrait of Rabindra Nath Tagore from a Bharatiya Janata Party member in Barrackpore, West Bengal.” Misleading.
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Video shows PM Modi accepting an upside down portrait of Rabindranath Tagore” Misleading.
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Hindustan Times: Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 2024: Will it be celebrated on May 7 or May 9? All you want to know
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Indiatimes: Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 2024: Some of the most brilliant and famous artists of the Tagore family
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NDTV: Rabindranath Tagore Birth Anniversary: History, His Contribution And Other Things To Know
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2023· 3 entries
The Quint rated the claim “Rabindranath Tagore wrote the national anthem to honour King George V, who in turn awarded him the Nobel Prize for literature.” False.
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FACTLY rated the claim “Rabindranath Tagore wrote the ‘Jana Gana Mana’ song in praise of King George V, who was the Chairman of the Nobel Prize selection committee when Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913” FALSE.
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Released album “Shastry Vs Shastry”.
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2021· 4 entries
jagranjosh.com: Rabindranath Tagore Biography: Birth, Family, Education, National Anthem, Nobel Prize, Notable Works and Death
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NDTV: Rabindranath Tagore's Birth Anniversary: Celebration Of Literature, Music
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Amit Shah sat on Rabindranath Tagore's chair; JP Nadda said that Rabindranath Tagore was born in Shantiniketan” False.
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Alt News rated the claim “Amit Shah sat on Tagore's chair, JP Nadda said Tagore was born in Shantiniketan” False.
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2019· 1 entry
BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had composed the original national anthem which was later adapted and changed by Rabindranath Tagore later” FALSE.
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2016· 1 entry
A baul singer named Pradip Bauri, accused of sheltering the thieves, was arrested
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2014· 1 entry
“Das Hauptziel des Lehrens ist nicht, Bedeutungen zu erklären, sondern an die Tür des Geistes zu klopfen." - Jivansmriti (Meine Lebenserinnerungen), zitiert nach Christine Kupfer: Bildung zum Weltmenschen. Rabindranath Tagores Philosophie und Pädagogik, Transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2544-8, S. 303, Google Books”
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2013· 1 entry
Moneycontrol: Rabindranath Tagore
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2011· 3 entries
Released album “Paran Khule”.
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Harvard University Press collaborated with Visva-Bharati University to publish The Essential Tagore, the largest anthology of Tagore's works available in English; it was edited by Fakrul Alam and Radha Chakravarthy and m
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Released album “Yatra 2”.
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2010· 6 entries
Released album “Sakal Khelay Korse Khela Ei Ami”.
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Released album “Tagore 4 2moro”.
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Released album “Tumi Amari”.
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Released album “Sedin Dujane”.
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Released album “Nutan Aloay”.
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Released album “Rabindra Arghya - Vol 1”.
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Birohini”.
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Released album “Anandadhara Abismraniyo Rabindrasangeet”.
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2006· 1 entry
“Che io debba tenere in gran conto il mio io e volgermi da ogni parte, gettando ombre colorate sulla tua radiosità – questo è il tuo maya. (2006)”
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Memorable Tagore Songs”.
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “Nirabo Nirjane”.
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Released album “Tomar Binai Gaan Chili”.
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1985· 3 entries
“Asprezze e dissonanze della mia vita | si fondono in una dolce armonia | e la mia adorazione stende le sue ali | come un uccello che vola lieto sul mare. (1985)”
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“Le onde portatrici di morte | cantano ai bambini cantilene senza senso | come fa la madre | quando dondola la culla del suo bimbo. | Il mare gioca con i bambini | e la spiaggia ride luccicando pallidamente. (1985)”
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“[Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, Taylor & Francis, 1985.]”
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1971· 1 entry
Amar Shonar Bangla became the national anthem of Bangladesh
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1964· 1 entry
And Ghare Baire in 1984, and by several others filmmakers such as Satu Sen for Chokher Bali already in 1938, when Tagore was still alive
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1956· 1 entry
(a gift from the Indian government, the work of Rasithan Kashar, replaced by a newly gifted statue in 2005) and the lakeside promenade still bears his name since 1957
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1952· 1 entry
“Müde schlief ich auf müßigem Bette // Im Wahn, daß die Arbeit ein Ende hätte. // Am Morgen, da wachte ich auf und fand, // Daß mein Garten voll Blumenwundern stand." - Geheimes Wachsen, in: Lyrik des Ostens, Carl Hanser Verlag, München 1952, S. 223, Internet Archive”
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1941· 6 entries
Died 1941-08-07.
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“Miłość to niekończąca się tajemnica, bo nie ma żadnej rozsądnej przyczyny, która mogłaby ją wytłumaczyć.”
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“as crianças nos trazem, ao nascer, a mensagem de que Deus não perdeu ainda a esperança nos homens.”
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“Inna wersja: Jeśli zamknięcie drogę wszystkim pomyłkom, wykluczycie prawdę.”
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“India chose her places of pilgrimages on the top of hills and mountains, by the side of the holy rivers, in the heart of forests and by the shores of the ocean, which along with the sky, is our nearest visible symbol of the vast, the boundless, the infinite and the sublime.”
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“Pieśń moja pozbawiła ją ozdób.Brak u niej dumy ze stroju czy upiększeń.Ozdoby popsułyby tylko nasz związek;Znalazły by się między tobą i mną, ich brzęczenie zagłuszyłoby twoje szepty.Moja próżność poety umiera ze wstydu na twój widok.O mistrzu poeto, siadam u twych stóp.Pozwól mi jedynie uczynić swe życie prostym i szczerym,Jak flet trzcinowy napełniony muzyką dla ciebie.”
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1937· 1 entry
Tagore's paintings were removed from Berlin's baroque Crown Prince Palace by the Nazi regime and five were included in the inventory of "degenerate art" compiled by the Nazis in 1941–1942
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1932· 1 entry
While on a visit to Iran, that "each country of Asia will solve its own historical problems according to its strength, nature and needs, but the lamp they will each carry on their path to progress will converge to illumi
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1928· 1 entry
“Ich bereiste die ganze Erde, um die Flüsse und Berge zu sehen, und ich gab viel Geld aus. Ich unternahm große Anstrengungen. Ich sah alles, aber ich vergaß, gleich vor meinem Haus einen Tautropfen auf einem kleinen Grashalm zu sehen, einen Tautropfen, der in seiner Konvexität die ganze Welt um dich herum spiegelt." - Eintrag in Satyajit Rays Poesiealbum (1928)”
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1927· 1 entry
Tagore travelled for four months to Southeast Asia, stopping in British Malaya, Siam and the Dutch East Indies
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1921· 1 entry
Tagore and agricultural economist Leonard Elmhirst set up the "Institute for Rural Reconstruction", later renamed Shriniketan or "Abode of Welfare", in Surul, a village near the ashram
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1919· 2 entries
“The disproportionate severity of the punishments inflicted upon the unfortunate people and the methods of carrying them out, we are convinced, are without parallel in the history of civilised governments...The time has come when badges of honour make our shame glaring in their incongruous context of humiliation, and I for my part wish to stand, shorn of all special distinctions, by the side of my countrymen.”
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Was invited by the president and chairman of Anjuman-e-Islamia, Syed Abdul Majid to visit Sylhet for the first time
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1918· 1 entry
Who analyzed Tagore's views on philosophy, religion, art and poetry, using Tagore's works available in English up to that time
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1917· 2 entries
Tagore conceived a new type of university: he sought to "make Santiniketan the connecting thread between India and the world [and] a world center for the study of humanity somewhere beyond the limits of nation and geogra
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“(Engl.: "The main object of teaching is not to explain meanings, but to knock at the door of the mind." - My Reminiscences, The Macmillan Company, New York 1917, S. 116, Internet Archive)”
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1916· 1 entry
He escaped assassination—and only narrowly—by Indian expatriates during his stay in a San Francisco hotel in late 1916; the plot failed when his would-be assassins fell into an argument.
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1915· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Bachelor (1915).
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1913· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — 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.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature for Song Offerings (1913).
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“(Engl.: "I was tired and sleeping on my idle bed and imagined all work had ceased. In the morning I woke up and found my garden full with wonders of flowers." - Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Macmillan & Co., London 1913, Nr. 81, Wikisource)”
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Tagore became the first Indian and non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
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“(Engl.: "The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures." - Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Macmillan & Co., London 1913, Nr. 69, Wikisource)”
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1912· 3 entries
And to mark the centenary of Tagore's birth
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Took a sheaf of his translated works to England, where they gained attention from missionary and Gandhi protégé Charles F
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Tagore translated his 1910 work Gitanjali into English
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1911· 1 entry
At a Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress, and was adopted in 1950 by the Constituent Assembly of the Republic of India as its national anthem
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1901· 1 entry
Tagore moved to Santiniketan to found an ashram with a marble-floored prayer hall—The Mandir—an experimental school, groves of trees, gardens, a library
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1900· 1 entry
For instance, when he was nearing forty and already a celebrated writer, he wrote to Jagadish Chandra Bose, "You will be surprised to hear that I am sitting with a sketchbook drawing
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1890· 3 entries
“the play of feeling and not of action”
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Wrote Visarjan (an adaptation of his novella Rajarshi), which has been regarded as his finest drama
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Tagore began managing his vast ancestral estates in Shelaidaha (today a region of Bangladesh); he was joined there by his wife and children in 1898
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1884· 1 entry
Soon after he married, left him profoundly distraught for years
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1883· 1 entry
Married 10-year-old Mrinalini Devi, born Bhabatarini, 1873–1902 (this was a common practice at the time)
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1880· 1 entry
Returned to Bengal degree-less, resolving to reconcile European novelty with Brahmo traditions, taking the best from each
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1877· 1 entry
His nephew and niece—Suren and Indira Devi, the children of Tagore's brother Satyendranath—were sent together with their mother, Tagore's sister-in-law, to live with him
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1873· 1 entry
Was greatly influenced by melodious gurbani and Nanak bani being sung at Golden Temple, for which both father and son were regular visitors
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1861· 1 entry
Born 1861-05-07.
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