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Laureate Rabindranath
Tagore (1861-1941) is the best known Bangali
in the world.
In the philatelic world he is still an endless
curio. Bangladesh honoured him by issuing a stamp
with his late-age portrait in an elliptical frame
and the picturesque view ofShelidah Kuthibari(estate
house) situated on a little land enclave on the
river Padma about 15 km south-west of Pabna
1991.
Bangladesh Postal Authority commited a could be
avoidable mistake by splitting his name as "Rabindra
Nath", a style which Tagore self abhored.
Please note also the spelling of the word "salient",
in the FDC information brochure.
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This
page "Rabindranath Tagore in the Philatelic
World" is dedicated to Syed Mujtoba Ali , who
addressed Rabindranath Tagore as "Gurudev"
and Dr. Sirajul Islam, Literary Secretary
of The Calcutta Medical College Student's Union,
Bengal 1943 and edited The Medical College
Magazine Bengal Vol.XI, No.1 October 1943.
As a clinical student 1941,he attended the ailing
poet. |