Rabindranath Tagore loved Hyderabad so much that he wanted to make City his second home
Hyderabad, May 6 -- In 1933 the Nizam of Hyderabad, through his administration, extended a formal invitation to Rabindranath Tagore to visit Hyderabad. The poet who had earlier visited some other places in this region, gladly accepted the invitation forwarded by Nawab Mehdi Nawaz Jung, who was then one of the top officials of the Nizam government.
Before that, there had developed a sense of mutual respect and admiration between the Nizam and the famous poet. Education was a subject that was very dear to Tagore's heart. He wrote in his collection of poems titled Geetanjali: "Where knowledge is free and the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls.etc." Through his poetry, he urged people to broaden their outloo...
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