Tagore International School
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Tagore International School, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, was founded by Dr. Mrs. H. Sen in 1972. Named after Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...

, it envisions an education "deeply rooted in one’s immediate surroundings but connected to the cultures of the wider world, predicated upon pleasurable learning and individualized to the personality of the child". The first branch was in Lajpat Nagar, and thereafter in Vasant Vihar, East of Kailash and DLF.

The schools are run by the Tagore Education Society, a society founded by Dr. Mrs. Hari Sen and Mr. Jitender Sen in 1964.

School emblem

The Tagorean emblem represents three letters T I S. The central I is the leaping flame of the candle, signifying everlasting knowledge, enclosed by T which forms the arms and legs of the child who is never tired in his quest for this 'Vidya' or knowledge. Like the light of the candle, the child is continuously striving to reach for the stars.

Tagore International School, East of Kailash

Founded in 1972 by Dr. Mrs. H. Sen, TIS EOK is an English medium Senior Secondary School.

The school is known for its discipline among the students. It has won ISA (International Schools Award by British Council). It is the member of prestigious NPSC. The school enjoys reputation Globally as is has web-conferencing with many schools abroad. It has sent students abroad to attend cultural exchange programmes. It is also having student and Teacher exchange programme with schools abroad. Ms Suman Nath is the Principal of this school since 2001. The Principal is a master trainer of CBSE for their CCE programme. She is also actively involved in CBSE-i curriculum and has undertaken many other assignements with CBSE.
It is located in between the upmarket colonies of Greater Kailash, South Extension, Defence Colony
Defence Colony
Defence Colony is a posh locality situated in South Delhi, India. Besides its central location from most parts of the city of Delhi, the locality is immensely popular among all Delhiites for the exotic varieties of cuisines that it has on offer...

, Sadiq Nagar, Kailash Hills, and East of Kailash.

The school is registered with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)

Tagore International School, Vasant Vihar

It was established in 1972 by Dr. Mrs. H. Sen, as an English medium Senior Secondary School.

The school philosophy is illustrated in Rabindranath Tagore's words "I was brought up in an atmosphere of aspiration, aspiration for the expansion of the human spirit. We in our home sought freedom of power in our language, freedom of imagination in our literature freedom of soul in our religious creeds, and that of mind in our social environment. Such an opportunity has given me confidence in the power of education which is one with life and only which can give us real freedom, the highest that is claimed for man, his freedom of moral communion in the human world".

The school is the chief branch among all the branches.It is also among the best schools in New Delhi. The school is registered with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)
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