Prof PK Datta from Jawaharlal Nehru University speaks on Rabindranath Tagore. In this episode join us in a discussion with Professor PK Datta from Jawaharlal Nehru University - JNU New Delhi, speaking on the life and international thought of Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize and is widely admired for his poetry, plays, and novels. He was also a prescient political thinker, a humanist, universalist and internationalist. Tagore's visionary internationalism had a profound impact on the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi, and on Jawaharlal Nehru, the first and longest serving Prime Minister of India. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
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Prof PK Datta from Jawaharlal Nehru University speaks on Rabindranath Tagore. In this episode join us in a discussion with Professor PK Datta from Jawaharlal Nehru University - JNU New Delhi, speaking on the life and international thought of Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize and is widely admired for his poetry, plays, and novels. He was also a prescient political thinker, a humanist, universalist and internationalist. Tagore's visionary internationalism had a profound impact on the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi, and on Jawaharlal Nehru, the first and longest serving Prime Minister of India. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
Life and thought of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: Prof Manu Bhagavan
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Life and thought of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: Prof Manu Bhagavan
Professor Manu Bhagavan, of Hunter College and CUNY, speaks on the life and work of Indian diplomat and politician Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. For the fifth GTI Professor Manu Bhagavan speaks on the life and work of Indian diplomat and politician Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was the first woman to be elected president of the United Nations General Assembly, in 1953. A prominent politician and active Indian nationalist, she was also the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet position in pre-independent India. As newly-independent India's top diplomat, Pandit served as ambassador to the Soviet Union (1947-49), the United States and Mexico (1949-51), Ireland (1955-61), and Spain (1958-61), and high commissioner to the United Kingdom (1955-61). In 1979, she was appointed India's representative to the UN Human Rights Commission. Pandit was an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College.
The Global Thinkers Series, Oxford
Prof PK Datta from Jawaharlal Nehru University speaks on Rabindranath Tagore. In this episode join us in a discussion with Professor PK Datta from Jawaharlal Nehru University - JNU New Delhi, speaking on the life and international thought of Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize and is widely admired for his poetry, plays, and novels. He was also a prescient political thinker, a humanist, universalist and internationalist. Tagore's visionary internationalism had a profound impact on the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi, and on Jawaharlal Nehru, the first and longest serving Prime Minister of India. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
