AGARTALA, April 27 (TIWN): A rare photo exhibition of Rabindranath Tagore will be organized by Aamara Channachara Bangla Muzikal Band in collaboration with Bani Kala Kendra of Khowai at Agartala City Center Art Gallery on April 28 to April 30.

Deputy Speaker of Tripura Legislative Assembly Pabitra Kar will inaugurate the photo exhibition.

In the photo exhibition 700 rare photos of Rabindranath Tagore collected by Ajapa Dhar of Assam will exhibited.

It is to be mentioned here that Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. From time to time he participated in the Indian nationalist movement, though in his own non-sentimental and visionary way; and Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend. Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British policies in India.