site.btaRabindranath Tagore in Sofia: “Now I Feel Like a Real Bulgarian!”
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian writer, poet, philosopher, educator, composer and public figure, BTA photo reproduction/Zoya Penkova of May 23, 1986
On November 17 of 1926, Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore delivered a lecture on “Modern Culture” in Sofia's Free Theater. Contemporaries have preserved the memory of an extremely warm welcome and extraordinary attention to the guest. At the send-off, in the square in front of the railway station, Tagore exclaimed: “Now I already feel like a real Bulgarian!”
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