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Ravindra Kalakshetra

Cultural Centre
 08022221271, 08022213530
Kannada Bhavan Building, J.C Road, Bangalore - 560002, Karnataka
Near Puttanna Chetty Town Hall
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Editor's Note
Ravindra Kalakshetra: This was built to commemorate Rabindranath Tagore's centenary. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, and was one of Indias prominent literary icon and Nobel Laureate. His literary work Gitanjali (Songs of offerings), is the most acclaimed and Nobel Prize winner in literature for the year 1913. He has written more than fifty odd volumes of poetry, few musical dramas, and dance dramas, essays of all types, travel diaries, and two autobiographies, one in his middle years and the other shortly before his death in 1941. Tagore also left numerous drawings and paintings, and songs for which he composed the music. There is a bust of Rabindranath Tagore at the entrance of this auditorium ... View More

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what a pity and what an irony! The editor's note reads"Rent of the hall to exhibit a Kannada program is cheaper than non Kannada events." and Tagore was not a kannadiga. Even more amusing---Rabindranath and Ravindra are 2 different entities. Authorities! respect the nobel laureate for what he is. Donot play around with people's nomenclature.