President pays tribute to Rabindranath Tagore

New Delhi, May 9: President

on Friday paid floral tributes to

on the occasion of his 153rd

, at

.

Other office bearers and staff of Rashtrapati Bhavan were also present on the occasion.

In 1913, Tagore became the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Nobel laureate is the author of the country's national anthem.

IANS