Tagore - Davinci of subcontinent

"Where the mind is without fear and the head held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake."

"My Country Awake" - a poem by Rabindranath Tagore

Today being Tagore's 150th birth anniversary, I felt like sharing with you all a poem that I personally like.
For those who wonder if he is just a great poet, then I wish they would read Shashi Tharoor's article 'Renaissance man'.

In the past, I had wonder what topics Tagore and Einstein could have discussed with equal zeal and interest and were those discussions structured, then I read the excerpts of their second meet at Germany.

Exponents in different fields but stalwarts all the same

" He has been for us the living symbol of the Spirit, of Light, and of Harmony - the great free bird which soars in the midst of tempests - the song of Eternity which Ariel strikes on his golden harp, rising above the sea of unloosened passions. But his art never remained indifferent to human misery and struggles. He is the 'Great Sentinel.' For all that we are and we have created have had their roots and their branches in that Great Ganges of Poetry and Love." 
- Einstein on Tagore, co-written with Gandhi and Rolland
After reading all this, sometimes I wonder.. Is our generation remembering such stalwarts and their contribution to our society, and humanity in general, only on rare special occasions like birth anniversary?
Whatever answers / reasons we might try to provide, at the end I feel this is what distinguishes them from mortals like us..

To end I recall one of the quotes by Gurudev, which I felt stood for his life and actions - "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."