India's Greatest Gift to the World: 100 Years of Tagore's Nobel Prize Win
Hundred years of Noble Prize (1913-2013): Rabindranath Tagore-India’s Greatest Gift to the World.
Abstract: Through Rabindranath Tagore India has given her message to mankind and his unique genius reflects India’s eternal values. As a visionary saint he guided every soul through the raptures of his music and mystic vision. Tagore having avoided to write in English, emerged as a Bengali poet which ultimately brought about a renaissance to all the Indian languages. The success of Indian Writing in English (IWE) and vernacular literatures in modern India is a direct contribution of this Indian sun (rabi). As a colonized country India could not have been taken seriously but for the international repute of Tagore a century back with a noble prize to the first non-European. He was held in highest esteem as a new fountain of poetry, as a bridge between the East and the West, and above all, a quintessential artist during his life time which ultimately helped awaken India and gained her a ground to be heard for its legitimate claim for swaraj (independence). This paper is attempted to illumine on Tagore’s contribution and his universality what India has ever shared as its greatest gift to the world.
Key Words: Avant –Garde; East-West; educationist; eternal; globalization; Maya; music; religion; Renaissance; Trinity; truth; Time-Space-Causation; visionary.
Tagore left the highest number of creative works in this world counting more than 1,200 songs with music composition, 38 plays, equaling the number of Shakespeare’s, 12 novels, 200 short stories, more than 2,700 pictures, let alone his direction, stage-setting, acting and choreography which sprang from his power of perception, rather than from any logical speculation or existing philosophical treatise. A diversified field of expertise represents a millennium of Indian culture and civlisation. His philosophy and poetic vision fuse into one leading to a universal religion in which everyone is to struggle
Abstract: Through Rabindranath Tagore India has given her message to mankind and his unique genius reflects India’s eternal values. As a visionary saint he guided every soul through the raptures of his music and mystic vision. Tagore having avoided to write in English, emerged as a Bengali poet which ultimately brought about a renaissance to all the Indian languages. The success of Indian Writing in English (IWE) and vernacular literatures in modern India is a direct contribution of this Indian sun (rabi). As a colonized country India could not have been taken seriously but for the international repute of Tagore a century back with a noble prize to the first non-European. He was held in highest esteem as a new fountain of poetry, as a bridge between the East and the West, and above all, a quintessential artist during his life time which ultimately helped awaken India and gained her a ground to be heard for its legitimate claim for swaraj (independence). This paper is attempted to illumine on Tagore’s contribution and his universality what India has ever shared as its greatest gift to the world.
Key Words: Avant –Garde; East-West; educationist; eternal; globalization; Maya; music; religion; Renaissance; Trinity; truth; Time-Space-Causation; visionary.
Tagore left the highest number of creative works in this world counting more than 1,200 songs with music composition, 38 plays, equaling the number of Shakespeare’s, 12 novels, 200 short stories, more than 2,700 pictures, let alone his direction, stage-setting, acting and choreography which sprang from his power of perception, rather than from any logical speculation or existing philosophical treatise. A diversified field of expertise represents a millennium of Indian culture and civlisation. His philosophy and poetic vision fuse into one leading to a universal religion in which everyone is to struggle
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