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Monday, January 13, 2014

Rabindranath Tagore


Rabindranath Tagore was born May 7, 1861 in Calcutta, India into a wealthy Brahmin family.  He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 — the first Asian to receive the honor. He wrote poetry, fiction, drama, essays, and songs; promoted reforms in education, aesthetics and religion; and in his late sixties he even turned to the visual arts, producing 2,500 paintings and drawings before his death. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. Tagore was poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, educationist, spiritualist, painter, lyricist, composer and singer – a rare set of distinctions, an unbelievable conjunction of talents. His creative works, which still influence billions of people globally, are a matter of pride for the people of India and Bangladesh. He was born, grew up, worked and died here.  India chose his Jana gana mana as the national anthem in 1947, Bangladesh chose his songs amar sonar bangla as the national anthem in1971. Rabindranath Tagore died on August 7, 1941, at 80 years of age. Tagore belongs to India, and Bangladesh too. But in the truest sense, he belongs to the world.

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