Poet Laureate

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  Nirmala Sitharaman Quotes Tagore, Thiruvalluvar In Budget Speech, Twitter Reacts

  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today quoted Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar in her third Budget presentation.

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  Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, Malayalam Poet And Gandhian, Dies

  Renowned Malayalam poet and Jnanpith laureate Mahakavi Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri died at a private hospital on Thursday, family sources said. He was 94.

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  Bengali Poet Nabaneeta Dev Sen Dies At 81

  Prominent Bengali author, poet, academic Nabaneeta Dev Sen died at her Kolkata home Thursday evening. She was 81 and is survived by two daughters. She had been unwell for some time before her death. Nabaneeta Dev Sen was the former wife of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen who has expressed deep shock at her passing.

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  Mamata Banerjee's Photo Among "Famous Bengali Legends" Sparks Outrage On Social Media

  A photograph of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alongside stalwarts of Bengal, including revolutionary hero Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Nobel laureate poet Rabindra Nath Tagore, on a giant flex at the heart of the city's information technology hub has created a stir among people on social media websites.

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  Now World's Cheapest Drinking Water At 50 Paise Per Litre, Claims NGO

  Population around Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan will get the cheapest drinking water in the world at 50 paise per litre with the inauguration of an innovative project on Wednesday that converts contaminated pond water into pure drinking water, claimed an NGO.

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  At Davos, PM Modi Invokes Rabindranath Tagore, Calls "Soft Power Our Real Power"

  Invoking Rabindranath Tagore, Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded his address at the opening session of the World Economic Forum in Davos today. "The great Indian poet of the last century and Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, had imagined a heaven of freedom where the world is not broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls," PM Modi sa...

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  Caribbean Poet And Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott Dies At 87

  Poet, playwright and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott died Friday after a long illness at his home on the Caribbean island of St Lucia, his publisher said. He was 87.

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  Indian-American Doctor Is Ohio's First Poet Laureate

  A 36-year-old Indian-American doctor has been named the first Poet Laureate by the US state of Ohio for showcasing a variety of styles in his poetry.

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  Rabindra Nath Tagore's Ancestral House to be Preserved as Heritage Site

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that Nobel laureate poet Rabindra Nath Tagore's ancestral house at Jorasanko in North Kolkata would be preserved by the state government as a heritage site.

• Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and Nobel laureate, dies at 74

  Irish writer and poet Seamus Heaney, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, died today at the age of 74, his family said.

• Rabindranath Tagore great poet but second rate playwright: Girish Karnad

  Just days after noted playwright Girish Karnad stirred up a controversy by launching a scathing attack on Nobel laureate VS Naipaul, today he turned his guns on Rabindranath Tagore. Mr Karnad called Tagore a 'great poet but a second rate playwright.'

• Renowned Urdu laureate Wahad Ashrafi passes away

  Renowned Urdu laureate and ex-chairman of Bihar Universities (Constituent Colleges) Commission Wahad Ashrafi today died at Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) in Sheikhpura in Patna after protracted illness.

• I would be honoured to play Tagore: Amitabh

  Amitabh Bachachan says he would love to play the Nobel laureate if given a chance.

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  British poet laureate pens ode to injured Beckham

  O Beckham, where art thou? David Beckham has become an unlikely muse to Britain's poet laureate, who has written a verse about the soccer star's career-threatening injury.