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...Accompanied by daughter Indira, Nehru loped off to a government guest house in the Himalayas for ten days of loafing, riding and sunbathing. Between jeep rides to local bazaars, Nehru finally got around to the job of editing letters between him, Mahatma Gandhi, George Bernard Shaw and Bengali Poet Rabindranath Tagore, discovered that white ants had long since eaten choice parts of the moldy papers...
...Milne, particularly for Platero y Yo,* a collection of prose vignettes spoken by the poet to his burro about life and death in a Spanish town (TIME, Aug. 19, 1957). At the outbreak of civil war, Jiménez and his Vassar-educated wife (translator of Indian Poet Rabindranath Tagore) left Spain, lived thereafter in the U.S., Cuba and Puerto Rico, where she died three days after he won the Nobel prize, plunging him into a depression from which he never recovered...
Alfred R. Babcock '40 always wondered whether magazines rejected his poetry because it was inferior, or because he was not a "name" author. So, under his own name, he sent a selection by Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel prize-winning Hindu poet, to Poetry Magazine. And another rejection slip joined his mounting pile...
Belgian Poet Pierre-Louis Flouquet suggested a remedy: a worldwide "poetry day" in May during which all schools would devote a solid hour to the muse, sending the students home to brighten their parents' drab, workaday existence with a bit of T. S. Eliot or Rabindranath Tagore. After spirited debate, Flouquet's motion was voted down...
...birth. If a peasant objected to levies as high as 80% or 90% on his crops, the zamindar could seize his land (or his daughter) in payment. The zamindars gradually became the landholders, the peasants mere sharecroppers. "The most creditable products of zamindari," wrote the London Economist, "have been Rabindranath Tagore, the poet, Liaquat Ali Khan, the Prime Minister, and the Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram, the cricketer . . . The majority have been as vicious as Thackeray's Lord Steyne, as idle as Jane Austen's Mr. Bennett, and as drunken as a Surtees squire...