Bengali poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore's rare handwritten letter, in which he expressed his reservations about English translations of his short stories, fetched more than Rs 21 lakh at an online art auction this week.

The letter, which was estimated at a value of Rs 2 lakh to Rs 3 lakh, sold for more than seven times the base price. The letter raked in Rs 21,13,212 after a round of competitive bidding by several art collectors.

Tagore's letter, which was addressed to Satyabhushan Sen, was a part of auction house AstaGuru's 'Collector's Choice' Modern Indian Art. The two-day online auction was held on June 21-22.