Q: This poet from Ireland was Tagore’s biggest promoter in the English-speaking world. He once said, “Tagore does not know English. No Indian knows English.” Like Tagore, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was described by Samuel Beckett as “pompous and posturing.” Name this poet, who was closely associated with Geetanjali.
A: W.B Yeats
Q: In 2021, there was outrage in India over the renovation of a memorial that was the site of one of the bloodiest incidents in the 1900s. Name this incident, which Tagore cited as the reason for returning his knighthood.
