The year 2001 was the 150 th birth anniversary of our first Nobel laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7 th May 1861. He though has given a number of classic contribution to the Bangla and English literature but his best-known novel Gitanjali is always remembered because of its highly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verses. In the year 1913, he was awarded the Nobel prize, then he was the first Non-European Nobel laureate. His poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial and was highly garnered and appraised in the western countries. But many of his elegant prose and poems remain unknown to the rest of world, outside Bengal. His Novels, stories, dance and dramas spoke of politics and society of that time. Some of his best-known works known to the world are Gitanjali, Gora and Ghare Baire. Rabindranath Tagore’s grandfather Dwarakanath Tagore was among the founders of Aadi Dharm. His son Debendranath Tagore and the father of Rabindranath Tago
Pachisi, Chausar, Chopad or popularly known as Ludo is an ancient Indian game, which per some historians Mughal Emperor Akbar was addicted to and used to play with real people instead of plastic buttons or plastic statue miniatures, the game has now become a strategy game and are taught at business schools. On August 29, 1891, Alfred Collier had applied for a patent in England, claiming that a board game, which he named Royal Ludo, was his invention. Since then the game became popular worldwide by the name we know today. Later on, the British Royal Navy converted it into a board game called ‘Uckers’. According to some historians this board game of Ludo or pachisi originates in India as far back as 3300 BC. The exact origins of this legendary game though seems uncertain, but some earliest proofs of this game comes from the historic Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, where the board game was depicted in the form illustrations on the wall. This seems to suggest that Ludo was an Indian creation.