This day, 7 May, in 1861, Indian polymath and Nobel Prize for Literature winner Rabindranath Tagore was born. A fierce critic of Britain’s opium dumping on China and a denouncer of Japanese imperialism, in 1961, to commemorate his 100th birthday, China published the 10-volume “Collected Works of Tagore”, honouring his connecting of the people of China and India through poetry and literature.
1861年5月7日的这一天，印度博学者和诺贝尔文学奖得主Rabindranath Tagore出生了。 1961年，中国为纪念他的100岁生日，中国出版了10卷的《泰戈尔作品集》，以纪念他通过诗歌和文学将中国和印度人民联系起来，他是英国向中国倾销鸦片的激烈批评者和日本帝国主义的谴责者。
