Soumendranath Tagore

Soumendranath Tagore (19101974), son of Sudhindranath Tagore and grandson of Dwijendranath Tagore, was a great orator. He was a name to reckon with in the cultural arena in the 1960s and 1970s.[1] He was associated with the communist movement from his younger days.[2] Soumendranath Tagore married Srimati Hutheesingh from an aristocratic Jain Gujarati family of Ahmedabad. She was a student in Shantiniketan and a well known dancer and choreographer who took training in dance in India and abroad. Srimati Tagore's brother Raj N Hutheesingh married Krishna Nehru, younger daughter of Motilal Nehru and sister of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

References

  1. Dwijendranath Tagore#Descendants
  2. Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali (editors), Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan (Biographical dictionary) Vol I, 1976/1998, (Bengali), p. 607, ISBN 81-85626-65-0
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