“Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; I will not buy glass…” — Rabindranath Tagore

“Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds.”

Warning against confusing political loyalty with deeper spiritual and moral values · Essay, Nationalism

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About Rabindranath Tagore

7 May 1861–7 August 1941

Rabindranath Tagore, born on 7 May 1861 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India, and dead on 7 August 1941 in the same city, was one of the rare writers whose life seems inseparable from the cultural history of a nation. Yet to call him merely India’s greatest modern poet is to reduce an astonishingly various…

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