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Rabindranath Tagore

Finding Nobel Laureates at Gandhi Hall

Finding Nobel Laureates at Gandhi Hall

Nothing about this squat, grey, block of a building would have it marked as a venue that has graced not one, but two Nobel laureates.  Once the home of the Rangoon Times, the first all-English language newspaper in Myanmar that ran from 1856 to 1942, it was also visited by the great writer Rabindranath Tagore […]

Searching for Tagore at the Guardian Press Building

Searching for Tagore at the Guardian Press Building

With such a high concentration of colonial era buildings it can be so easy to walk pass a building and be utterly unaware of its former significance to the city.  The Guardian Press Building is made even more anonymous by relatively recent cladding which hides most of its prominent architectural structures making it appear as […]