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Buenos Aires
The capital of Argentina on the Rio de la Plata where Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) arrived in November 1924 en route to Peru for the centennial of Simon Bolivar's victory at the Battle of Ayacucho. Tagore fell ill with pleurisy after arrival and spent two months (November 1924-January 1925) convalescing at the Miralrio villa in San Isidro, hosted by the Argentine writer Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979). The friendship with Ocampo transformed Tagore's late poetry (producing the poems collected in 'Puravi', dedicated to her as 'Vijaya') and introduced Argentine literary society to Indian spiritual thought. Ocampo founded the literary journal 'Sur' (1931) partly inspired by Tagore. The 2011 Miralrio villa was converted into the Tagore Museum; Buenos Aires honoured Tagore with the Rabindranath Tagore Plaza in Palermo.
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Worth knowing
The poems he wrote there became Purabi, which he dedicated to her under the name Vijaya. Ocampo afterwards brought Tagore's work, and then Gandhi's, into Spanish-language print, which is most of how Indian writing entered Latin America.
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- Life routeRabindranath Tagore
Tagore reached Buenos Aires in November 1924 on his way to Peru, fell ill, and spent two months at a house in San Isidro lent by Victoria Ocampo, the writer who later founded the journal Sur. The poems written there became Purabi, dedicated to her under the name Vijaya. Ocampo afterwards brought Tagore's work and then Gandhi's into Spanish-language print, which is most of how Indian writing entered Latin America at all.
Sources
Wikipedia, “Buenos Aires”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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