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Tagore Stays Immortal, the Universal Man

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From: India Abroad
Date: 19940610
Author:Neepesh Talukdar

Neepesh Talukdar
India Abroad
06-10-1994
Tagore Stays Immortal, the Universal Man.

I admire my great friend Rabindranath Tagore," said the German thinker Hermann Keyserling, "as I admire no other living man, because he is the most universal, the most encompassing, the most complete human being I have known. The last historical figure of this kind in Europe was Homer."

The American philosopher-historian Will Durant told Tagore, "You are the reason why India should be free."

Jawaharlal Nehru, in his Tagore centenary address, acknowledged, "I have learned more from Tagore than even from Mahatma ...

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