Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
To be constantly changing one's plans isn't decision at all-it's indecision.
He was referring to foreign aid where plans developed by one culture tended not to work will in the recipient culture. He advocated an empirical deployment of the money in a manner consistent with the local cultures and norms. Opponents argue that most third world recipient culture have norms of corruption and inefficiency and taxpayers of donor countries will not long support their money being channeled into the pockets of corrupt leaders.
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS was a Bengali poet, writer, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European as well as the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal".
