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From: use...@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner)
Newsgroups: news.groups,soc.culture.indian
Subject: Tagore and Korea?
Message-ID: <4521@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 00:52:23 GMT
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Reply-To: r...@frith.UUCP (Narayan S Raja)
Followup-To: news.groups,soc.culture.indian
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
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Posted: Fri Sep  8 01:52:23 1989

In article <4...@cps3xx.UUCP> k...@frith.egr.msu.edu () writes:

>Korea, together with China and Japan, is one of the important
>countries of East Asia.  It has a recorded history of over
>2,000 years, during which, besides developing in its own unique
>manner it has been the cultural bridge between China and Japan.

I was surprised to hear from two of my
Korean friends that Rabindranath Tagore
wrote a poem saying something like

"In the golden days of Asia,
 Korea was the lamp of the East.
 Let those days soon return"

or words to that effect.  (This must
have been during the Japanese occupation).
Apparently this poem is quite
well known in Korea tho' not many
people know who Tagore was!  Does anyone
know the original Bengali poem?

Pl. set followups to "news.groups" or
"s.c.indian" depending on where it is more
relevant.  I look forward to seeing s.c.korea.


Narayan Sriranga Raja.

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