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RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali Rabīndranāth Ṭhākur, (born May 7, 1861, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India— died August 7, 1941, Calcutta), Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing

Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of early 20th-century India. In 1913 he became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Debendranath Tagore & Sarada Devi (parents of Rabindranath Tagore)

Tagore born in Kolkata on 7th May, 1861

Tagore founded Santiniketan in 1901.

Gitanjali a collection of poems was written by Tagore in Bengali language. William Rothenstein the English painter and art critic, was greatly

interested in the writings of Rabindranath Tagore. The painter especially was drawn to Gitanjali, Bengali for \"song offerings.\" The subtle beauty and charm of these poems prompted Rothenstein to urge Tagore to translate them into English so more people in the West could experience them.

Tagore translated his song offerings in Gitanjali into English prose renderings. In 1913, primarily for this volume, Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

The great Irish poet, W. B. Yeats, also a Nobel Laureate (1923), provided an introduction to Gitanjali. Tagore’s paintings





TAGORE’S WORKS







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