Li invokes Tagore in talks with India

May 20, 2013 14:01

The Telegraph, Kolkata, reports that Chinese PM Li, who last visited India 27 years ago as a youth leader, invoked Rabindranath Tagore in several interactions with Indian officials.

The two governments are expected to sign during his current visit a pact on translating Chinese literary classics into Indian languages, and vice versa.

Tagore visited China in 1924, 11 years after winning the Nobel prize.The trip was controversial and he wrote and spoke extensively about a great Asian internationalist perspective that India and China together could portray.

Tagore had established a China Bhavan in Santiniketan after being deeply influenced by its literature.But in invoking Tagore today, soon after the tent tiff, Li may have been keeping up with a tradition: successive Indian leaders have invoked Tagore while visiting China. So have Chinese dignitaries on trips to India. Read more

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