"The Tagoreans" is an organisation that believes in Rabindranath Tagore's philosophy of life and draws its inspiration from his creativity in various fields such as literature, music and art. The Tagoreans was established by late Tapan Gupta in 1965 with the aim of conveying to the west the passion and joy of Rabindranath Tagore's creativity, philosophy, humanitarianism and genius. Its activities include staging of plays, musical concerts and dance dramas, organising poetry recitals, lectures, seminars, exhibition of arts and craft, promoting Bengali culture to a wider public in the UK and Europe and running classes to teach music and dance. During the last 35 years The Tagoreans have been involved in many notable activities. It had organised Voices of Bengal Festivals I and II in 1984 and 1988 bringing together for the first time on the stage in Britain artists from West Bengal and Bangladesh. In 1986, the group had organised the 125th anniversary of Tagore's birth with over 150 artists and scholars from around the world presenting dance dramas, musical events, plays, poetry recitals, seminars, workshops and art exhibitions. In 1989 , in recognition of Jawaharlal Nehru's close links with Tagore, the group had organised Nehru's birth centenary celebrations with a variety of events - lectures, international commemorative conferences and musical performances at the Commonwealth Institute, the Royal Festival Hall and Harrow School. In 1997, the Tagoreans had organised two very successful shows of an award winning play by the renowned actor and playwright Soumitra Chatterjee called Tiktiki, and in 1999 celebrated the centenary of the rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. In 1999, the group had organised a millennium concert in Calcutta, with an aim to thank those in West Bengal who had helped this organisation throughout the past 35 years. The celebration included a composite programme of Tagore songs, recitations and dances entitled Ganer Bhitor Diye. Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913 but is remembered and loved by Indians for his several thousand songs, paintings and novels, short stories, plays and dance drasmas. Together this literary output comprises 60 volumes of work unrivalled in its range and inspiration. "The Tagoreans" have no religious or political boundaries and encourages participation from all sections of thecommunity.