Rabindranath Tagore#Rabindranath
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#Rabindranath
Rabindranath Tagore · 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941
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Who this is
Statesmanship and education — leader of the Moderate wing of the Indian National Congress, master of the imperial budget, founder of the Servants of India Society.
“The education bill he lost in 1912 became Indian law in 2009 — he served his country by his failures, exactly as he predicted, and spent his last strength training the man whose successes came later.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“You can fight an empire with its own account books. Master the rulers' numbers better than the rulers, tell the truth so precisely it cannot be waved away, and train successors sworn to poverty to finish what you start.”
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