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Burglars steal Nobel Prize winner's citation in India

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20040325
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AP Worldstream
03-25-2004
Dateline: CALCUTTA, India
Burglars broke into a university museum and stole a citation for the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to India's Rabindranath Tagore, police said Thursday.

Tagore, who died in 1941, won the prize for his poetry entitled "Gitanjali."

Police Inspector-General Chayan Mukherjee said thieves broke into the museum, which is part of the Visva Bharati University.

Tagore established the university in Santiniketan, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) northwest of Calcutta in eastern India, in 1921.

"A wristwatch, several rare paintings, gold medals ...

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