'Hope of the East'
By Chitralekha Basu | China Daily | Updated: 2010-05-14 07:53
Well-known elocutionist Cao Lei giving an impassioned reading of Rabindranath Tagore's poems to mark the 149th anniversary of the poet's birth. Ren Long / Xinhua |
Indian Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's soothing works are once again speaking to Chinese readers, caught in the swift currents of a society undergoing frenetic change. Chitralekha Basu reports
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