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India’s First Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore was a multifaceted genius admired for his ‘myriad-mindedness’. Among his expansive and impressive body of work, Gitanjali is Tagore’s beautiful English translation of his own poems with an introduction by W.B. Yeats. It is widely regarded as one of his greatest achievements that has stirred the imagination of many, across national boundaries down the ages.
As the chancellor of Visva Bharati, which was founded by Gurudev Tagore, it gives me immense pleasure to learn that the very first facsimile edition of this perennial bestseller is being published by Visva-Bharati, in collaboration with UBS Publisher’s Distributors. This never-before edition of Gitanjali has been planned to interest the uninitiated reader as well as the serious reader of Tagore alike.
I welcome this endeavour and wish the book all success.
New Delhi
(A.B. Vajpayee)