Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore’s birthday marked in Bac Ninh province

At the floral tribute to mark the 163rd birth anniversary of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861 - 2024) at the international friendship park in Bac Ninh province. (Photo: VNA)

At the event, flowers were laid at the statue of Tagore, while local students and members of the Indian community in Hanoi performed poetry and music pieces related to the polymath, who was also a playwright, song composer, and painter.

A statue dedicated to Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore was inaugurated at Bac Ninh’s international friendship park in October 2023.

Tagore is one of the great cultural figures of India. He became the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 then visited Vietnam in 1929. Many Vietnamese scholars have studied and translated his works, and his poems have been included in textbooks in the Southeast Asian country's national education curriculum./.