Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর ‚ pronounced [roːbin̪d̪rɔnaːtʰə ʈhaːkurə]; Hindi: रबिन्द्रनाथ ठाकुरα[›]β[›]; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)‚γ[›] sobriquet Gurudev‚δ[›] was a Bengali poet‚ novelist‚ musician‚ painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali with its "profoundly sensitive‚ fresh and beautiful verse"‚[1] he was the first non-European and the only Indian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.[2] His poetry in translation
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Rabindranath Thakur Rabindranath Thakur‚ anglicized to Tagore pronunciation (help info) (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)‚γ[›] sobriquet Gurudev‚δ[›] was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive‚ fresh and beautiful verse"‚[2] he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.[3] In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however‚ his "elegant prose
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• Educational • Video • About Us The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 Rabindranath Tagore Tagore and His India by Amartya Sen* Voice of Bengal 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. His poetry as well as his novels‚ short stories‚ and essays are very
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Rabindranath Tagore The first Asian Nobel Prize winner for Literature‚ a cultural hero‚ and an international figure‚ Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7th May 1861 in Calcutta‚ India. Tagore speaks to an optimistic assortment of the ripened Indian custom and the new European awareness. Globally‚ Gitanjali is Tagore ’s best-known accumulation of poetry and Tagore was granted the Nobel Prize in 1913 for his book "Gitanjali"‚ which contains the essence of an Indian artistic tradition. Tagore was an unofficial
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Rabindranath Tagore [pic]Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta‚ India into a wealthy Brahmin family. After a brief stay in England (1878) to attempt to study law‚ he returned to India‚ and instead pursued a career as a writer‚ playwright‚ songwriter‚ poet‚ philosopher and educator. During the first 51 years of his life he achieved some success in the Calcutta area of India where he was born and raised with his many stories‚ songs and plays. His short stories were published monthly in a friend’s
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Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 9‚ 1861 in an affluent family in the Jorasanko Mansion in Kolkata. His parents were Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi.Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta‚ India into a wealthy Brahmin family. After a brief stay in England (1878) to attempt to study law‚ he returned to India‚ and instead pursued a career as a writer‚ playwright‚ songwriter‚ poet‚ philosopher and educator. During the first 51 years of his life he achieved some success
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Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore also known as Gurudev‚ was a renowned Bengali poet‚ playwright‚ novelist‚ visual artist‚ composer‚ educationist‚ social reformer‚ nationalist and business-manager. He contributed a lot to Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the first Asian Nobel Laureate who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore wrote several novels‚ short stories‚ songs‚ dance-dramas
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Speaking of the friendship between Gandhi and Tagore‚ he quoted a line from Gandhi: "I hope I am as great a believer in free air as the poet‚" a line that is largely omitted when arguments between the two are talked of. Gandhi was the mother of all debates on the future of India‚ surely his debates with Tagore rank as the greatest and most profoundly enriching. Tagore and Gandhi - born in the 1860s in two regions separated by the bulk of the country - were men who came to represent the quintessence
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Rabindranath Tagore is a prolific writer‚ and he tries his hand successfully at almost all the major forms of literature. Born in an educated Bengali family he receives his education primarily at home and close to natural setting. He paces Bengali literature to its highest scale by his versatile genius. As Edward Thomas paints out‚ even Victor Hugo couldn’t have claimed a wider range of form and mood than is evinced by Tagore who writes plays of every kind – tragic‚ symbolic‚ comic‚ and farcical
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore‚ a leader of the Brahmo Samaj‚ a religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal which attempted a revival of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. 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 addition to his many-sided literary activities‚ he managed the family estates‚ which brought
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