‘Extraordinary and exquisite’ says Shashi Tharoor sharing Rabindranath Tagore' letter to Nehru on his autobiography

India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (Wikipedia)

Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor, who is known for his flair for language, took to Twitter on July 30 to share a letter written by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

The note he shared dates back to the year 1936 and was written by the Bengali bard to the first Prime Minister of independent India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Tagore had written this letter to Nehru after reading his autobiography – ‘An Autobiography’.

Sharing an image of the note on the microblogging platform, Tharoor wrote: “This was Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s note to Pandit Nehru after reading his autobiography in 1936. Extraordinary and exquisite.”

Tagore’s note reads: “I have just finished reading your great book and I feel intensely impressed and proud of your achievement. Through all its details there runs a deep current of humanity which overpasses the tangles of facts and leads us to the person who is greater than his deeds and truer than his surroundings.”

This was Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s note to Pandit Nehru after reading his autobiography in 1936. Extraordinary and exquisite. pic.twitter.com/46PtaVJixG

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) July 30, 2020