As a school student, this writer experienced Rabindranath Tagore's masterly art of story-telling while reading The Holiday or The Homecoming as part of the curriculum
Calling for protecting and promoting age-old Indian civilizational values, traditions and ethos, he stressed the need for a cultural renaiisance.
He said the translated works of Tagore are not as beautiful as in the original
Tagore became popular in China because he took a stand against opium use among Chinese encouraged by western powers