The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 19, May 8, 2005, Article 14

INDIAN POET'S STOLEN NOBEL MEDALS REPLACED

On May 7th, Reuters reported that "A Nobel Prize medal
belonging to India's only award winner for literature was replaced
on Saturday, more than a year after the original was stolen from
a university in eastern India.

Thieves stole the Nobel, won in 1913 by the revered poet
Rabindranath Tagore, from a museum in a university he founded
in 1921 in Shantiniketan, some 150 km (93 miles) north of Calcutta,
capital of the West Bengal state.

Inga Eriksson Fogh, Sweden's ambassador to India, handed over
a set of gold and bronze medallions set in a box to the university
authorities in the presence of India's foreign and defence ministers."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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