'Pride of India' - A Tribute to Tagore, 20 September '15, Bonn

Shri Rabindranath Tagore needs no introduction in the world of literature and music. He was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of the modern Indian subcontinent.

Consulate General of India, DIG Bonn-Cologne and IAB Bonn are organising a cultural event 'Pride of India-The Western Traveler', celebrating the great poet, in Bonn on 20th Sep 2015 at 6 pm. The performing artistes are from India. The Indian Classical Music Concert with Manipuri and Kathak Dances is based on the works of Tagore during his German trips in 1921, 1926 and 1930 and also in Czech Republic and Hungary. It is accompanied with an audio-visual presentation. The entry for the event is free but registration is mandatory.

For more information and registering for the event, please visit the link.

http://www.iab-online.org/index.php/2012-09-04-04-08-42/pride-of-india