Thieves apparently broke in at Rabindra Bhavan, which houses a museum where the Nobel Prize was on display. Besides that, there were numerous original documents which were also stolen.

The robbers broke open the glass case and escaped with the items. A lock of a glass case where the documents and the prize were secured were found broken.

They made away with several artefacts belonging to Tagore, including some gold medallions and rare paintings, police said.

"The stolen artefacts might also contain the Nobel Prize citation or the plaque," an official of Kolkata Police said.

Staff at Visvabharati University in Shantiniketan discovered the theft this morning.

University vice chancellor Sujit Basu is closeted with senior police officials over the robbery.

Forensic experts are already on the job. One of the main entrances to the university, Uttarayan Gate, has been shut.

"The police have cordoned off the entire area. They are not allowing in even the Viswa Bharati staff," the spokesman said, confirming that the plaque stolen was the original one.

Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said that a CID team had been rushed to Viswa Bharati to conduct the investigation.

• KABIKAHINI, 1878 - A Poet's Tale
• SADHYA SANGEET, 1882 - Evening Songs
• PRABHAT SANGEET, 1883 - Morning Songs
• BAU-THAKURANIR HAT, 1883
• RAJASHI, 1887
• RAJA O RANI, 1889 - The King and the Queen / Devouring Love
• VISARGAN, 1890 - Sacrifice
• MANASI, 1890
• IUROPE-JATRIR DIARI, 1891, 1893
• VALMIKI PRATIBHA, 1893
• SONAR TARI, 1894 - The Golden Boat
• KHANIKA, 1900 - Moments
• KATHA, 1900
• KALPANA, 1900
• NAIVEDYA, 1901
• NASHTANIR, 1901 - The Broken Nest
• SHARAN, 1902
• BINODINI, 1902
• CHOCHER BALI, 1903 - Eyesore
• NAUKADUBI, 1905 - Haaksirikko
• KHEYA, 1906
• NAUKADUBI, 1906 - The Wreck
• GORA, 1907-09 - suom.
• SARADOTSAVA, 1908 - Autumn Festival
• GALPAGUCCHA, 1912 - A Bunch of Stories
• CHINNAPATRA, 1912
• VIDAY-ABHISAP, 1912 - The Curse at Farewell
• GITANJALI, 1912 - Song Offerings (new translation in 2000 by Joen Winter, publ. Anvil Press) - Uhrilauluja
• JIBAN SMRTI, 1912 - My Reminiscenes - Elämäni muistoja
, trans. by J. Hollo
• DAKGHAR, 1912 - Post Office
• The Crescent Moon, 1913
• Glimpses of Bengal Life, 1913
• The Hungry Stones and Other Stories, 1913
• CHITRA, 1914 - transl.
• GHITIMALAYA, 1914
• The King of the Dark Chamber, 1914
• The Post Office, 1914
• Sadhana, 1914
• GHARE-BAIRE, 1916 - The Home and the World - Koti ja maailma
• BALAK, 1916 - A Flight of Swans
• CHATURANGA, 1916 - transl.
• Fruit Gathering, 1916
• The Hungry Stones, 1916
• Stray Birds, 1916
• PERSONALITY, 1917 - Persoonallisuus
• The Cycle of Spring, 1917
• Sacrifice, and Other Plays, 1917
• My Reminiscene, 1917
• Nationalism, 1917
• Mashi and Other Stories, 1918
• Stories from Tagore, 1918
• PALATAKA, 1918
• JAPAN-JATRI, 1919 - A Visit to Japan
• Greater India, 1921
• The Fugitive, 1921
• Creative Unity, 1921
• LIPIKA, 1922
• MUKTADHARA, 1922 - trans.
• Poems, 1923
• Gora, 1924
• Letters from Abroad, 1924
• Red Oleander, 1924
• GRIHAPRABESH, 1925
• Broken Ties and Other Stories, 1925
• Rabindranath Tagore: Twenty-Two Poems, 1925
• RAKTA-KARABI, 1925 - Red Oleanders
• SADHANA, 1926 - suom.
• NATIR PUJA, 1926 - transl.
• Letters to a Friend, 1928
• SESHER KAVITA, 1929 - Farewell, My Friend
• MAHUA, 1929 - The Herald of Spring
• JATRI, 1929
• YAGAYOG, 1929
• The Religion of Man, 1930
• The Child, 1931
• RASHIAR CHITHI, 1931 - Letters from Russia
• PATRAPUT, 1932
• PUNASCHA, 1932
• Mahatmahi and the Depressed Humanity, 1932
• The Golden Boat, 1932
• Sheaves, Poems and Songs, 1932
• DUI BON, 1933 - Two Sisters
• CHANDALIKA, 1933 - transl.
• MALANCHA, 1934 - The Garden
• CHAR ADHYAYA, 1934 - Four Chapters
• BITHIKA, 1935
• SHESH SAPTAK, 1935
• PATRAPUT, 1936
• SYAMALI, 1936 - trans.
• Collected Poems and Plays, 1936
• KHAPCHARA, 1937
• SEMJUTI, 1938
• PRANTIK, 1938
• PRAHASINI, 1939
• PATHER SANCAY, 1939
• AKASPRADIP, 1939
• SYAMA, 1939
• NABAJATAK, 1940
• SHANAI, 1940
• CHELEBELA, 1940 - My Boyhood Days
• ROGSHAJYAY, 1940
• AROGYA, 1941
• JANMADINE, 1941
• GALPASALPA, 1941
• Last Poems, 1941
• The Parrots Training, 1944
• Rolland and Tagore, 1945
• Three Plays, 1950
• Crisis in Civilization, 1950
• Sheaves, 1951
• More Stories from Tagore, 1951
• A Tagore's Testament, 1955
• Our Universe, 1958
• The Runaway and Other Stories, 1959
• Wings of Death, 1960
• GITABITAN, 1960
• A Tagore Reader, 1961 (ed. by Amiya Chakravarty)
• Towards Universal Man, 1961
• On Art and Aesthetics, 1961
• BICITRA, 1961
• GALPAGUCCHA, 1960-62 (4 vols.)
• Boundless Sky, 1964
• The Housewarming, 1964
• RABINDRA-RACANABALI, 1964-1966 (27 vols.)
• Patraput, 1969
• Imperfect Encounter, 1972
• Later Poems, 1974
• The Housewarming, 1977
• Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Poems, 1985
• Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories, 1991 (trans. by William Radice)

In one salutation to thee, my God,

let all my senses spread out and touch this world at thy feet.

Like a rain-cloud of July

hung low with its burden of unshed showers

let all my mind bend down at thy door in one salutation to thee.

Let all my songs gather together their diverse strains into a single current

and flow to a sea of silence in one salutation to thee.

Like a flock of homesick cranes flying night and day

back to their mountain nests

let all my life take its voyage to its eternal home