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The Embassy of Sweden has planned a two-day celebration, on October 25 and 26, in Kolkata for the centenary of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel prize. Tagore was the first Indian to win the prize, and first non-European to get the award in literature.
It would also mark the beginning of the seventh edition of the Sweden India Noble Memorial Week, a Swedish Embassy note said.
The celebration would include inauguration of the Nobel Memorial Wall at the Esplande metro station, release of a book ‘Tagore in Sweden – 1921 and 1926’ by Swedish scholar Olavi Hemmila and panel discussion.
The memorial wall at the city’s busiest metro station will be a permanent structure. The embassy is also putting two temporary structures at two other metro stations in the city. There will be (metro) track-side branding at another station.
Tobias Degsell, a curator and educationist from the Nobel Museum, will also conduct creativity workshops for young business professionals for new ideas in problem solving. A photo exhibition and other cultural programmes would be organised.
>jayanta.mallick@thehindu.co.in
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