A bronze bust of India’s Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was recently inaugurated in the Literary Garden of prestigious Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven in Belgium, coinciding with his birthday on May 7.
Tagore, who besides being the first non-European to receive Nobel Prize in literature, also composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh, authored Gitanjali and established India’s Visva Bharati University.
Calling it a step in the positive direction, Rajan Zed, President of Universal Society of Hinduism, urged other European universities to honor the intellectuals of East, thus bridging the East-West gap, which was the need of the hour.
Founded in 1425 by Pope Martin V, Belgium’s largest and renowned research-intensive university KU Leuven with a mission of “providing high-quality interdisciplinary research and education with a Catholic signature” has over 41,000 students. Rik Torfs is the Rector of this female-majority university.
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