Commemorating the 100 years of the ‘Nobel Prize in literature - awarded to Rabindranath Tagore’, a “Nobel Memorial Wall”honouring Indian Nobel laureates will be fabricated in one of the city’s metro stations during the Sweden India Nobel Memorial Week 2013, said an official of the Swedish embassy.
To be inaugurated by Ambassador of Sweden Harald Sandberg on 25th October, the wall will be a permanent structure at the busiest metro station in Kolkata.
The wall would be plywood and steel structure depicting the Nobel laureates from the country, put in front of an existing wall at the Esplanade Metro station in Kolkata city. A Similar graffiti would be put up at the Rabindra Sarobar station.
The two-day celebrations being organised by the embassy will release Tagore in Sweden-1921 & 1926, a book on his two visits by Swedish scholar Dr. Olavi Hemmila. An English translation of the original statement of the 1913 Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy nominating Tagore for the award will be brought to the city for the first time and displayed at different venues during the event.
Two temporary walls are also being fabricated at the Gitanjali Metro station and the one at Shyambazar for a week. These stations have been chosen, as “Gitanjali” — the name of the Tagore’s Nobel Prize winning work and Shyambazar is the closest to his home at Jorasanko.
The Sweden India Nobel Memorial Week 2013 will have the noted thespian Parnab Mukherjee for a special programme centred on Tagore’s Nobel acceptance speech.
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