The core of Indian philosophy is in the search of unity in diversity. Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali, which was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913, sums up this central thought.

Gitanjali indeed reflects this deep and deathless feeling of the Indian mind.

To celebrate the 100th year of Rabindranath's Nobel Prize, a "new" Gitanjali - which is a landmark-production to reflect the feel and emotion of the whole of India.

This book would be the valuable possession for all the readers in India as it contains the selected poems of Gitanjali in 14 languages .

The reason that has whet my desire and interest to write this book - Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the great poet Rabindranath Tagore. The original Bengali collection of 157 poems was published on August 14, 1910. The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of 103 English poems of Tagore's own English translations of his Bengali poems first published in November 1912 by the India Society of London. It contained translations of 53 poems from the original Bengali Gitanjali, as well as 50 other poems which were from his drama Achalayatan and eight other books of poetry — mainly Gitimalya (17 poems),Naivedya (15 poems) and Kheya (11 poems).

The translations were often radical, leaving out or altering large chunks of the poem and in one instance fusing two separate poems (song 95, which unifies songs 89,90 of Naivedya). The translations were undertaken prior to a visit to England in 1912, where the poems were extremely well received. In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the English Gitanjali. The core of Indian philosophy is in the search of unity in diversity. Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali, which was awarded the Nobel Prize, sums up this central thought. Gitanjali indeed reflects the deep and deathless feeling of Indian mind. As a Bengali and also an educationist I derived my idea of this novel production of Gitanjali from this tread of thought that Gitanjali represents the soul of entire nation. The entire editorial team deserve all the accolade for this original line of thought and unique ideation that would go a long way in effacing all national differences and separation -lines.