Himalayan News Service

Kolkata, February 17:

The Swedish government will pay for the cost of two replicas of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize medallion stolen in March.

On March 25, security staff of ‘Uttarayan’, Tagore’s home inside Santiniketan, discovered that 50 of his memorabilia, including the Nobel medal he won in 1913, were missing. Failing to recover the medallion, the university officials asked the Nobel awards committee for a replica. The committee sent gold and bronze replicas costing Rs 171,000. Now Sweden would reimburse the money.