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Express News Service DEHRADUN: Ramgarh's 'Tagore Top' where Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore resided in the early 1900s and composed parts of his Magnum Opus 'Gitanjali' will get a campus of Visva-Bharati University, Shantinekitan, said union human resources development minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'. "Approval has been granted by the university last month. It was a proud moment for Uttarakhand and Kumaon that our land was blessed with the presence of such a legend. The campus will enable students to explore hordes of opportunities in multiple streams," said the HRD minister. The minister while addressing a virtual rally in Ramnagar of Nainital district on Tuesday also added that the campus will add to the rich heritage of Kumaon division of Uttarakhand. Visva-Bharati University was founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in 1921 as a college which was accorded the status of a central university in year 1951. 'Visva-Bharti' literally translates to 'the communion of the world with India'. The 'Tagore Top' hill is located in Ramgarh Nainital district at a place called Mahesh Khan on Bhowali-Ramgarh road. To reach the Tagore Top where Gurudev resided in 1903 one has to trek around 4-5kms. At around 5000ft above the sea level, the cottage is now in ruins waiting for its revival. Tagore stayed in this once-spacious house with his terminally ill daughter Renuka Devi in 1903 who suffered from tuberculosis and is said to have composed parts of the 'Gitanjali' which got the N...

Why It Is Important to Preserve Tagore's 'Gurudev' Image Beyond the sanitised image of a 'Gurudev', Rabindranath Tagore railed against nationalism and disagreed with Gandhi's refusal to draw a line between politics and religion. If the cultural godfathers of our great Bharat get wind of these words, he would surely be branded an 'urban Naxal'. Many more people like to refer to India’s greatest poet by the moniker Gurudev than by the name that his parents had given him at birth, the name that appears on his Nobel medallion. Politicians and industry barons, intellectuals as much as mafia dons, dyed-in-the-wool liberals no less than right-of-right creationists: they all love to pay obeisance to their Gurudev in equal measure. At the first hint of an opportunity, people trot out one of the three pieces of Rabindranath Tagore’s work that everyone seems to be familiar with – Jadi tor dak shune keu na ase tobe ekla cholo re (“If no one heeds your call, you must walk alone”) being the universal favourite. Even though some of the more patriotic specimens of our political class have been known to fumble when asked to recite the national anthem, nobody fails to roundly condemn a laggard who rises late to the same anthem when it plays out in a movie theatre’s sound system. And, recently, even one of our most With his flowing beard, his aquiline nose and high forehead, his long and colourful robes, and of course the ashram, Tagore perfectly fits the ‘Gurudev’ image. Credit: Wikimedia C...

• Share : • • • • Linked Follow Us Each one of us has grown up reading as well as reciting the literature produced by one of India’s famous poets, writers and social reformers, Rabindranath Tagore. On the 162nd birth anniversary of this Nobel Laureate, here are some lesser facts on the life of this finest poet Updated on : 09 May,2023 02:51 PM IST | Compiled by : Aakanksha Ahire