India, Bangladesh and the United Kingdom joined hands on Thursday to honour Rabindranath Tagore, one of the greatest poets of the Commonwealth, at the House of Commons.
Speaking at a landmark event in a packed committee room of the Palace of Westminster — as the Houses of Parliament in Britain are referred to — India’s High Commissioner to the U.K., Ranjan Mathai, said: “Tagore was one of the most celebrated sons of India, a towering figure, who wrote our national anthem.
“The range of his achievements is extraordinary — literature, music, art.”
Bangladesh’s High Commissioner Mohamed Mijarul Quayes declared: “Tagore imparted greater glory to the Nobel Prize than the Nobel did to him.” The event was hosted by Virendra Sharma, Labour party MP from the west London constituency of Ealing Southall, in collaboration with Nrityakala Dance Heritage.
