The eminent Indian poet, curator and cultural critic, Ranjit Hoskote, delivered the annual Tagore Lecture in Modern Indian Literature on September 23, 2016. Hoskote is the author of five collections of poetry, as well as I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded, based on 20 years of translation and research on 14th-century Kashmiri poet Lal Ded.
The Tagore Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Cornell Professor Emeritus Narahari Umanath Prabhu and Mrs. Sumi Prabhu to honor Rabindranath Tagore, a celebrated writer and musician, and one of the great luminaries of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.