India will host a three-day international conference on Rabindranath Tagore's vision of the contemporary world to mark his 150th birth anniversary, said the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Thursday.

The conference, to be held here from Oct. 10 to 12, is expected to cast new light on the writer's outlook to humanity and universal concerns and its relevance to the present world, according to ICCR Chair Karan Singh, who called Tagore a real Renaissance man of India and the country's first world citizen.

Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the conference, which will include a keynote address to be delivered by scholar Amiya K. Bagchi entitled "Rabindranath Tagore and the Human Condition."

The Indian Revival Group will present "Amader Gurudev", a tribute to Tagore using his dance, drama and films.

The conference will take up themes like "Beyond Nationalism: Contesting the Boundaries between the Home and the World", "Man and the Universe: The Ecological Oneness", "Writings of Tagore and his Integrated Vision" and "The New Education: Reasoning in Freedom".

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