What's the next step? Dashing off a letter? On 12/13/11, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Kalyan, that was awesome! Less than an hour to solve the puzzle, > Hooray for crowd-sourcing. You deserve a barnstar! > > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Kalyan Sarkar > <kalyan.sar...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Yes. It is Abanindranath Tagore. >> >> Please visit http://www.clicktobuyboi.in/catalog/product/view/id/9452/, >> which shows a book on him titled 'Agranthita Abanindranath' (Unpublished >> Abanindranath). The image in the front cover of the book shows the side >> view of a slightly younger Abanindranath. But one can easily make out that >> the image is of the same person as that of the image in the LIFE >> repository. >> >> Thanks and regards, >> Kalyan Sarkar >> >> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com >> > wrote: >> >>> The LIFE repository of public domain images has this image on its Google >>> site >>> >>> http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=7cbc71f276cdecd4 >>> >>> The caption is completely botched up by the Life data input guy >>> (presumably) - it cant be Rabindranath Tagore who sported a beard most of >>> his life. I suspect it is RT's famous painter nephew Abanindranath >>> Tagore >>> (teacher of famous Shantiniketan painter, Nandalal Bose)- >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abanindranath_Tagore >>> >>> Even this blog page says so : >>> >>> >>> http://www.oldindianphotos.in/2010/04/abanindranath-tagore-famous-artist-of.html >>> >>> What I'm looking from Bengali Wikipedians is to please help me confirm >>> this with some kind of proof. This image is p-d India and uploadable to >>> Commons since Abanindranath died in 1951 at age 80 and this image would >>> be >>> around when he was around 60. >>> >>> Warm regards, >>> >>> Ashwin Baindur >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> >
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