Question

15.Read the short story written by Rabindranath Tagore ‘The Kabuliwala’ or ‘The
Home Coming.’

Visit the website and collect more information about Rabindranath Tagore’s life and
work.
Read the short story written by Rabindranath Tagore ‘The Kabuliwala’ or ‘The Home Coming.’ Chapter1.1(1) Where the Mind is Without Fear...-Rabindranath Tagore
Maharashtra SCERT Class X English

Answer 1

Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali Rabīndranāth Ṭhākur, born in, 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. he died on August 7, 1941, Calcutta and the nation lost a talented writer.