Organised by the Swedish Embassy, the seventh edition of the week is dedicated to Rabindranath Tagore to mark the centenary of his Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Tagore was not only the first Indian to bring home the prestigious award but also the non-European to get one in Literature," according to an official statement from the Embassy.
The week is scheduled to begin here on Novermber 8 with a panel discussion "Tagore, now!", moderated by scholar and translator Radha Chakravarty which aims to explore the relevance of the timeless poet, writer, philosopher in today's day and age. Panelists include filmmaker Kaushik Mukherjee (popularly known as Q) who recently worked with Tagore's "Tasher Desh", theatre-person Prakash Belwadi and Shirshendu Chakrabarti.
The Delhi Metro Corporation is putting up a 'Nobel Memorial Wall' to commemorate Nobel Laureates from India with a a weeklong display at the Rajiv Chowk Metro station.
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As part of the celebrations "Tagore in Sweden - 1921 and 1926", written by Swedish Tagore expert Olavi Hemmila, was also re-released this year.
Apart from these the Sweden India Nobel Memorial Week 2013 comprises seminars, lectures, intercollegiate quizzes and round tables discussionS spread across cities - Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Mumbai.