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Beyond the beard

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From: The Hindustan Times
Date: 20080331
Author:

Renuka Narayanan

Hindustan Times

NEW DELHI, India, March 31 -- In 1930, The New York Times published a conversation between Albert Einstein and Rabindranath Tagore. Thousands came to hear Tagore speak at Carnegie Hall and Life magazine published a photo of Helen Keller lip-reading Tagore.

Joesph Goebbels, who, in his youth had loved Tagore's poetry in German, denounced him as a 'world liberal' at the Nuremberg Rally. The night before Paris fell to the Nazis, passages from Tagore were broadcast on French radio. What about us non-Bengali Indians, though? Growing up in post-1947 India ensured ...

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