Swedish envoy hands over Tagore�s Nobel medal replicas
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KOLKATA: A Nobel Prize medal belonging to India�s only award winner for literature was replaced yesterday, more than a year after the original was stolen from a university in eastern India. Thieves stole the Nobel, won in 1913 by the revered poet Rabindranath Tagore, from a museum in the Visva Bharati university he founded in 1921 in Shantiniketan, some 150km north of Kolkata, capital of West Bengal. Inga Eriksson Fogh, Sweden�s ambassador to India, handed over a set of gold and bronze medallions set in a box to the university authorities in the presence of External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh and Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee. Parliament Speaker and local MP Somnath Chatterjee, West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi and Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen were present at the function. The ceremony was held in the backdrop of a protest by employees who are angry over the transfer of the university�s security arrangements to a private agency. Vice Chancellor Sujit Basu said a sophisticated security system would be put in place in the university, including a burglar alarm, close circuit televisions and other arrangements. A high-powered committee would monitor the entire process. Tagore, a cultural icon in West Bengal, won the honour for Gitanjali, a collection of poems. He died in 1941 at the age of 80. A federal investigation has been unsuccessful, even after a Rs1mn ($23,000) reward was announced to retrieve the medal stolen in March last year. The Sweden-based Nobel Foundation handed over the replacement medals to the Indian government in December. Writing predominantly in the Bengali language, Tagore has the rare distinction of composing the national anthems of two countries � India and Bangladesh.- Agencies |
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