{"id":2674,"date":"2018-09-09T17:25:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T11:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:00","slug":"president-of-india-pays-floral-tribute-before-rabindranath-tagore-bust-in-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/president-of-india-pays-floral-tribute-before-rabindranath-tagore-bust-in-prague\/","title":{"rendered":"President of India pays floral tribute before Rabindranath Tagore bust in Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, paid floral tribute before a bust of India\u2019s first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore at the Thakurova Park at Prague on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The park was named in honour of Tagore, who visited Prague twice and is loved and revered by its people.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a gathering of students, and faculty members of\u00a0the Charles University in Prague, President Kovind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/world\/asia\/president-kovind-pays-tribute-to-rabindranath-tagore-in-prague201809091625380002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">said<\/span><\/a>, \u201cAs I speak here, I feel proud to be at such a great seat of knowledge. It delights me that\u00a0Rabindranath Tagore, our national poet and one of the greatest sons of India, once came to this very campus and delivered a thought-provoking speech, captivating many. He is the one who called Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, \u2018Mahatma\u2019 or \u2018the Great Soul\u2019, first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Image from the Facebook page, President of India)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, paid floral tribute before a bust of India\u2019s first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore at the Thakurova&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":2675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}