{"id":795,"date":"2001-05-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-05-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/05\/18\/2001-05-18-rabindranath-tagore-s-140th-birth-anniversary-celebrated-in-moscow\/"},"modified":"2001-05-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-05-18T12:00:00","slug":"2001-05-18-rabindranath-tagore-s-140th-birth-anniversary-celebrated-in-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/05\/18\/2001-05-18-rabindranath-tagore-s-140th-birth-anniversary-celebrated-in-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabindranath Tagore&#8217;s 140th Birth Anniversary Celebrated in Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.indiaabroaddaily.com\/2001\/05\/09\/09anniversary.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>MOSCOW, RUSSIA, May 09, 2001: The Indian community and Russians alike gathered around a massive monument of noble laureate Rabindranath Tagore, the largest in Europe, here to celebrate the 140th birthday of one of India&#8217;s greatest literateurs of the 20th century. &#8220;Rabindranath Tagore is not only the best read and most revered Indian literary figure in Russia, he is among the most widely read foreign poet in this country,&#8221; said Professor Alexander Danilchuk, who has authored a number of books on the life, philosophy and works of Tagore (1861-1721). The state-run TV channel &#8220;Kultura&#8221; screened a documentary on Tagore to honor the great poet on his birth anniversary Tuesday. Tagore&#8217;s humanistic philosophy was compared to that of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. When Russian Prime Minister Putin, addressed the Indian Parliament, he said, &#8220;Tolstoy and Tagore have made immense contributions to enriching the spiritual friendship between our two peoples.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE MOSCOW, RUSSIA, May 09, 2001: The Indian community and Russians alike gathered around a massive monument of,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}