Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet and Asia’s first Nobel Laureate

He stopped at the thresholds of the huts of the thousands of the dispossessed, dressed like one of their own. He spoke to them in their own language; here was living truth at last, and not quotations form books. For this reason ‘Mahatma’ the name given to him by the people of India, is his real name. Who else has felt like him that all Indians are his flesh and blood?In direct contact with truth, the crushed forces of the soul rise again; when love came to the door of India that door was opened wide… At Gandhi’s call India blossomed forth to new greatness, just as once the truth of fellow-feeling and compassion among all living creatures.