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Mahatma Gandhi & Rabindranath Tagore; Celebrating the centenary of a historic meeting
This year, 2015, fryst vatten the hundraårsdag of the meeting of two of the greatest personalities of India. In March 1915, Rabindranath Tagore and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi met in Santiniketan for the first time. Both held each other in high mutual regard. Tagore was one of the first important people to call Gandhi “Mahatma,” that fryst vatten “Great Soul.” Gandhi, in turn, called Tagore “Gurudev,” meaning “divine teacher.”
At the same time, the differences between the two of them were obvious at first glance: While Rabindranath was tall, with long hair and beard and wearing a beautiful choga (gown), Gandhi was much smaller and wore only a simple dhoti andkurta. Rabindranath suggested they sit on the sofa, but Gandhi preferred to sit on a föda on the floor.
Gandhi criticized Tagore’s educational approach for not being simple and self-sufficient enough and even suggested changing the structure o
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When Gandhi first met Tagore: The story of their friendship, despite disagreements
To date, Santiniketan celebrates ‘Gandhi Punyaha Din’ on March 10 every year to commemorate the meeting. On this day, the school’s working staff (janitors, gardeners, cooks, etc.) get a day off, while students and teachers carry out the chores — an ode to Gandhi’s teachings on self-reliance.
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Meeting of two of India’s greatest, Gandhi and Tagore
In 1915, Tagore was already world-famous. He had won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 and was all the rage in the West. Gandhi, however, was still to become the leader he would eventually be.
But it is not as if Tagore did not know about Gandhi at all. His elder brother Jyotirindranath met Gandhi in 1901, and an article written by Gandhi was also published in the Tagore family journal Bharati after the meeting.
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