The Smithsonian Institution is honored to present Santiniketan to Smithsonian: A Tribute to Tagore, to celebrate the life and work of poet, playwright, painter, composer, educator, and humanist Rabindranath Tagore: the Renaissance man, the leading light of modern India and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1913). To commemorate the 150^th Birth Anniversary of Tagore, the Smithsonian will present a two-day symposium at the National Museum of the American Indian on May 28^th and May 29^th  2011 starting at 1:00 p.m.

A special highlight of the event is a live on-line streaming of the entire symposium.

We hope to create a worldwide Tagore chain. Please log on: http://museumstudies.si.edu/tagore.html

For more information call: Manjula Kumar at 202.633.5289

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