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Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (/ rəˈbɪndrənɑːttæˈɡɔːr / ⓘ; pronounced [roˈbindɾonatʰ ˈʈʰakuɾ]; [ 1 ] 7 May 1861 [ 2 ] – 7 August 1941 [ 3 ]) was a Bengali poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance. [ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ] He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as ...
Oct 11, 2024 · Rabindranath Tagore, the revered Bengali poet and polymath, left an enduring legacy through his profound literary works and became the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads.
Apr 2, 2014 · Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, novelist and painter best known for being the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 with his book Gitanjali, Song...
On his 70th birthday, in an address delivered at the university he founded in 1918, Rabindranath Tagore said: “I have, it is true, engaged myself in a series of activities. But the innermost me is not to be found in any of these.
Rabindranath Tagore. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913. Born: 7 May 1861, Calcutta, India. Died: 7 August 1941, Calcutta, India. Residence at the time of the award: India.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) is best known as a poet, and in 1913 was the first non-European writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Highly prolific, Tagore was also a composer – he wrote the national anthems for both India and Bangladesh – as well as an educator, social reformer, philosopher and painter.
Aug 28, 2001 · Rabindranath Tagore, who died in 1941 at the age of eighty, is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes familiar with this large and flourishing tradition will be impressed by the power of Tagore’s presence in Bangladesh and in India.
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Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, and painter. He introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, helped introduce Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of early 20th-century India.
