Stories behind 1913 Nobel Award

In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the first non-European to receive it. His coming by the Nobel created much excitement not only in India but outside it as well. Rabindranath, not at all known outside India before the publication of hisGitanjali in its English version in November 1912 from London, made millions of people sit up and take