Tagore: The Distinctiveness of the Global - Prof PK Datta

In this episode join us in a discussion with Professor PK Datta from Jawaharlal Nehru University - JNU New Delhi, speaking on the life and international thought of Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize and is widely admired for his poetry, plays, and novels. He was also a prescient political thinker, a humanist, universalist and internationalist. Tagore's visionary internationalism had a profound impact on the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi, and on Jawaharlal Nehru, the first and longest serving Prime Minister of India.