🔆 164th Birth Anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore

📍 Why It Matters – 9 May 2025
✅ Marks the 164th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) — a towering figure in literature, art, and spiritual thought.
✅ Born in Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Kolkata, to Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi.

📍 A Global Literary Genius
✅ First non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) for Gitanjali.
✅ Published first poems at age 16 under the pen name ‘Bhanusimha’.

📍 Titles & Tributes
✅ Reverently known as ‘Gurudev’, ‘Kabiguru’, and ‘Biswakabi’.
✅ Advocated spiritual unity, addressed World Parliament of Religions in 1929 & 1937.

📍 Creative Legacy
✅ Major works: Gitanjali, Gora, Ghare-Baire, Manasi, Sonar Tori, Balaka.
✅ His song ‘Ekla Chalo Re’ became a national inspiration.
✅ Revolutionized Bengali music, art, and literature, fusing the spiritual with the political.

📘 Source: PIB | #GS1 #History

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🔆 India’s Disaster Risk Profile: Key Facts & Figures

📍 Latest indicators from official sources
✅ India’s Disaster Preparedness Score = 19.2
(Source: SDG India Index 2024)

✅ India would lose 6% of working hours due to heat stress (≈ 35 million full-time jobs)
(Source: ILO)

✅ Expected financial losses due to heat stress = $2.4 trillion globally by 2030
(Source: ILO)

✅ Nearly 90% of India lies in danger zone from heatwave impact
(Source: PLOS)

✅ Drought impact reduced India’s GDP by up to 5% in the last 20 years
(Source: UNCCD report)

✅ Drought-prone areas increased by 60% in last 25 years
(Source: NIDM)

✅ 40% of India’s land and 70% of cropped area is drought-prone, affecting >40% of population
(Source: NIDM)

✅ In 60 years, floods caused ₹4.5 trillion loss and >1 lakh deaths
(Source: Down to Earth)

✅ Over 12% of land prone to floods & river erosion
(Source: NDMA)

✅ 60% of India vulnerable to earthquakes where >80% of population lives
(Source: NDMA – Earthquake Disaster Risk Index Report)

✅ 75% of coastline & 1/3rd population vulnerable to cyclone-related disasters
(Source: IMD)

✅ India is exposed to 10% of world’s tropical cyclones
(Source: IMD)

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