Question

The birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore is celebrated on which date in India?

• A. May $8$
• B. May $9$
• C. May $7$
• D. May $6$

Answer 1

The correct option is C May $7$

The birth anniversary of Asia's first Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore is celebrated on May $7,2018$. Rabindra Jayanti is popularly called Poncheeshe Boishakh and being celebrated ceremoniously and jauntiness all across West Bengal and Bangladesh. His songs are known as Rabindra Sangeet. Tagore has composed the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh. Tagore was highly influential in introducing Indian culture to the West and is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of modern India. Tagore's own English translations of his collection of Bengali poems Gitanjali fetched him the Nobel Prize for Literature in $1913$.