Tagore, Nehru and Us
Rabindranath Tagore and Jawaharlal Nehru both visited Indonesia. They left an indelible memory of friendship forged from shared aspirations and common ideals. An exhibition of documentary photos on Sukarno and Nehru demonstrate some of these.
November 5, 2002
One day in 1920, Rabindranath Tagore, the 1913 Nobel laureate for Literature, came to the Netherlands. Noto Soeroto, a Javanese prince and the grandson of Paku Alam V, who was staying in The Hague, went to see him. Soeroto was one of Tagore's admirers. Later, he compiled his conversations with Tagore into a book, entitled Tagore Opvoedingen (1921). A year later, he published Tagore: Toespraken in Shantiniketan, a book containing Tagore's ideas
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