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Passionate, daring, saintly

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From: The Hindustan Times
Date: 20080518
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Hindustan Times

NEW DELHI, India, May 18 -- "He (Rabindranath Tagore) is the first among our saints who has not refused to live, but has spoken out of Life itself," wrote Irish poet W.B. Yeats in his introduction to Tagore's 'Song Offerings', which underwent as many as 10 editions in London a year before, not after it won the Nobel Prize in 1913.

Tagore seemed so abundant, so spontaneous, so daring in his passions and so full of surprise that his contemporaries had to accept him as the best poet of the time. But after a century, does he continue to remain relevant?

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