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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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Topic: Tagore

ThePrint Quiz, 4 May, 2025: Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore’s work profoundly shaped modern Indian literature and music. In this edition of ThePrint Quiz, test your knowledge of the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize.

Tagore’s Kala Bhavana endorsed art, immersive learning when world favoured Western education

Modelled after ancient teaching methods of the gurukul or tapovana and inspired by the Bauhaus philosophy, Kala Bhavana resulted from Tagore’s shift in politics after his withdrawal from the Swadeshi movement.

‘Two services for the salary of one’ — the challenges of being the spouse of an IFS officer

Reba Som notes that for a diplomat, a new country feels familiar as Indian embassies remain under the MEA and “have the same flavour”, this was not the case for their spouses.

Tagore wrote a letter of introduction for Bose before he left India. Half-hearted at best

In 'Bose', Chandrachur Ghose talks about how Subhas Chandra Bose was rebuffed by Gandhi and received little support from Tagore.

Why it’s so easy for Modi to appropriate Tagore — or anyone

Our icons are just that, familiar visual images, because Indians don’t read.

Dear proud Bengali, Tagore and Satyajit Ray are past. Please come out of the time trap

Invoking Bengali pride has been one of the distinct traits of West Bengal’s politicians, whether it is to duck criticism on Covid or play the language card.

The Bollywood song both Modi and Rahul Gandhi must listen to this Independence Day

India’s youth today are whiling away their time in needless pursuits, much like the actors in this song.

Would Ambedkar, Tagore and Buddha have been declared anti-national today?

In this excerpt from her book 'Indian Extincts', Miniya Chatterji writes that stalwarts of Indian politics, literature and religion would have been declared anti-national by today's standards.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.