A delegation of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs led by Minister S. Jaishankar on October 15 visited Bac Ninh province and attended a ceremony to inaugurate the statue in the province’s capital, Bac Ninh city, VietnamPlus reported.
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| At the inauguration of the statue of the famous Indian poet and writer, Rabindranath Tagore. Photo: VOV |
Addressing the ceremony, Secretary of the Bac Ninh Party Committee Nguyen Anh Tuan highlighted the traditional friendship of Vietnam and India that took root in the cultural and religious exchanges more than 2,000 years ago and was fostered by President Ho Chi Minh and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
He said over the past more than 50 years, India has been a reliable partner that regularly expresses its support for Vietnam’s development path and policies at many regional and international forums.
The cooperation between the two countries has reaped many important achievements not only in politics-diplomacy but also in economics and defence-security, turning them into reliable and important partners of each other, matching their comprehensive strategic partnership, Tuan said.
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| After the ceremony, the Indian minister and Bac Ninh leaders planted trees at the park and visited Phat Tich Pagoda in the Tien Du district. Photo: VOV |
He stressed that the statue of the great Indian poet is the first to be placed at the International Friendship Park of Bac Ninh, which the province built to honor the cooperation and friendship between the province and foreign countries.
Minister S. Jaishankar thanked the government and people of Bac Ninh for holding the ceremony to inaugurate the statue of Tagore. He said he was surprised by Vietnamese people’s admiration for the Indian poet whose works are widely known in Vietnam and even introduced in Vietnam’s school textbook.
He recalled that Indian monks had come to Luy Lau in Bac Ninh to teach Buddhism in ancient times, turning it into a famous Buddhist center in Vietnam, which constitutes a special spiritual and cultural bond between India and Bac Ninh.
After the ceremony, the Indian minister and Bac Ninh leaders planted trees at the park and visited Phat Tich Pagoda in the Tien Du district.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a major figure in conveying Indian culture to the West and vice-versa. He is often recognized as the greatest creative person of early twentieth-century India. This Bengali poet, short-story writer, music composer, playwright, novelist, and painter brought new prose and verse forms and colloquial language into Bengali literature, freeing it from standard methods based on classical Sanskrit. In 1913, Tagore was the first non-European to earn the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, according to Unacademy.com. |
Q.Hoa t.h / Vietnamtimes
