The Bard of Bengal

In August 1941, one of the greatest poets India has ever produced died. Known as the "Bard of Bengal", Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize for Literature.Farhana Haider spoke to Professor Bashabi Fraser, Director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies, in 2017.Photo: June 1921, Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore in London. Credit: Getty Images