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Indian High Commissioner to commemorate Birth Anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore
View(s):To commemorate the 155th Birth Anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, Indian High Commissioner Y. K Sinha, will be garlanding the bust of Tagore at the main Library of the University of Colombo at 9.30 a.m. on May 6 in the presence of the academic community and Tagore aficionados.
The event is being jointly organised by the Centre for Contemporary Indian Studies, University of Colombo and the Indian Cultural Centre, Colombo. The celebration will continue at the Indian Cultural Centre, Colombo at 6 p.m. “The story of Gitanjali”- a documentary film on Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali, the book that received Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 produced by Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs,Govt. of India, will be screened followed by a rendition of Rabindra Sangeet by Charith Perera at 6 p.m. at the Indian Cultural Centre auditorium, at 16/2 Gregory’s Road, Colombo 7.
All are welcome. For further details please contact the Indian Cultural Centre on tel: 2684698 or email: iccrcolombo@gmail.com.