20 Images to Remember Rabindranath Tagore on his 79 Death anniversary

10th November 1931: Chester Williams (left), Executive Secretary of the National Students Federation, interviewing Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City over WABC and Columbia Network radio. Tagore spoke on youth rebuilding the world. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

circa 1925: Portrait of German-born physicist Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) and Indian poet Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), the 1920s. (Photo by Martin Vos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

June 1921: Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

circa 1925: Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) with a female companion. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

INDIA - 1925: Nobel Prize-winning (1913) Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore reading to others. (Photo by Mansell/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

Philosophy, Germany, Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher, leaving the Berlin residence of President Hindenburg, 1926 (Photo by Haynes Archive/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), right, meets with famous Indian poet Tagore (1861 - 1941) for a photo opportunity in New York in 1930. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images)

Indian Bengali poet and literary figure Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) in an automobile while traveling in Tokyo, Japan, possibly 1916. (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 02: The Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore reading a book in the 1930s. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 01: Rabindranath Tagore shortly before his death in 1941. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature 1913. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

INDIA - JANUARY 01: The poet Rabindranath Tagore welcomed at Madras in the 1920s. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Indian poet, artist and writer Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), circa 1940. (Photo by Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

Indian political and social leader Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869 - 1948) (center) laughs with Bengali poet, scholar, and reformer Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) (right), India, the 1930s. (Photo by Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

(Original Caption) The Bard of India. This splendid photographic study of one of the world's foremost poets, Rabindranath Tagore of India, was taken as he arrived the other day in Berlin, Germany, during his European trip.

Rabindranath Tagore, the 1913 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, standing in a group. (Photo by Michael Nicholson/Corbis via Getty Images)

) 'Indian author and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore visits German / American physicist Albert Einstein in Caputh, - 07.14.1930 (Photo by ullstein Bild via Getty Images)

Einstein, Albert - physicist, Germany/USA *14.03.1879-18.04.1955+ - the Indian author and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore (center) visiting Einstein (right) in Caputh, on the left: the wife of Einstein Elsa and his daughter Margot - 14.07.1930 - Published by: 'B.Z.' 29.11.1930 Vintage property of ullstein Bild (Photo by ullstein Bild/ullstein Bild via Getty Images)

Portrait of Indian author and poet Rabindranath Tagore, circa 1935. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)(r) with the sculptor Jacob Epstein (1880-1959). (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 - 1948) With Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan, 1940. Gandhi was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Rabindranath Tagore (1861 -1941) was a Bengali polymath, philosopher and author. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

 Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) right with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, later Prime Minister of India, 1940. (Photo by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)