Tagore's love for science to be showcased

An exhibition highlighting Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's scientific bent of mind will travel through east and northeast India beginning May 9, organisers said on Wednesday.

The Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM), under the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), which functions under the union culture ministry, will inaugurate a travelling exhibition 'Rabindranather Vigyan Bhavna' (Rabindranath's scientific thoughts) on the occasion of Tagore's birth anniversary on May 9.

Designed by the NCSM to highlight the "generally overlooked aspect of the poet's rational and scientific bent of mind", the display includes photographs, anthology of quotations, anecdotal collections, interactive multimedia and other items.

After concluding its run till May 18 at the Museum here, it will travel to the NCSM's regional scientific centres in the east and the northeast, including Odisha, Assam and other places in West Bengal.

"The exhibition highlights the fact that for Tagore, scientific truths were not mere abstractions and formulae but were concrete living truths and guiding philosophies that inspired him to create great works of art.

"He assimilated and internalised the scientific spirit and weaved it into the very fabric of his philosophy and his artistic creations," BITM said in a statement.