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Rabindranath Tagore was one of the most talented persons that the world has ever produced. He ranked himself with literary giants of the world like Shakespeare, G.B. Shaw, Tolstoy and others in the firmament of literary world by dint of his extraordinary genius.
Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7th May, 1861 in Tagore family at Jorasanko, Kolkata. Rabindranath was a poet, a novelist, critic, short story writer, philosopher, educationist, scientists and social reformer. Every branch of Bengali literature was highly enriched by his immortal contributions.
It was Rabindranath who placed our country into the most prestigious position in the world though his astounding and immortal contributions to all branches of Bengali literature and language and won the most covetable Nobel Prize in the year 1913 for his composition of the Gitanjali, a collection of poems – rendered into English.
Rabindranath showed the signs of his genius though his occasional writings of poems that created wonder among his seniors. Like Matthew Arnold, he was ‘self-schooled’ and ‘self-scanned’ yet left an undying impression of his poetic talent though his writings in different branches of Bengali literature.
The works of Rabindranath Tagore includes poems, music, novels, drama, painting, short stories, etc.
His novels are
Shesher KobitaNoukadubiChaturanga,Gora (1910),Ghare Baire, Char Odhay .
Gitanjali is a Nobel Prize winning collection of poetry.
The national anthem of India, “Jana Gana Mana”, was composed by him.
The poet breathed his last on 7th August, 1941. Since then, more than seventy years have passed but we cannot forget him for his poetic genius.
In the year 1986, the 125 birth day anniversary of the poet was observed as a mark of profound respect to the poet throughout the country amidst great enthusiasm. The present generation feels indebted to this great poet for his undying contributions hat strengthened the cultural unity among the nations defying the territorial limits of different countries of this planet.
The death of the poet has created a void among us for his absence. But the wealth he has left for us in the form of his writings will inspire us to remember him with deep regards
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. 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 his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. From time to time he participated in the Indian nationalist movement, though in his own non-sentimental and visionary way; and Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend. Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British policies in India.
Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West. In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents on lecture tours and tours of friendship. For the world he became the voice of India's spiritual heritage; and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a great living institution.
Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first of all a poet. Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi (1890) [The Ideal One], Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat], Gitanjali (1910) [Song Offerings], Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs], and Balaka (1916) [The Flight of Cranes]. The English renderings of his poetry, which include The Gardener (1913), Fruit-Gathering (1916), and The Fugitive (1921), do not generally correspond to particular volumes in the original Bengali; and in spite of its title, Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912), the most acclaimed of them, contains poems from other works besides its namesake. Tagore's major plays are Raja (1910) [The King of the Dark Chamber], Dakghar (1912) [The Post Office], Achalayatan (1912) [The Immovable], Muktadhara (1922) [The Waterfall], and Raktakaravi (1926) [Red Oleanders]. He is the author of several volumes of short stories and a number of novels, among them Gora (1910), Ghare-Baire (1916) [The Home and the World], and Yogayog (1929) [Crosscurrents]. Besides these, he wrote musical dramas, dance dramas, essays of all types, travel diaries, and two autobiographies, one in his middle years and the other shortly before his death in 1941. Tagore also left numerous drawings and paintings, and songs for which he wrote the music himself.
Rabindranath Tagore died on August 7, 1941.
From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969
Acknowledgement: This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. For more details, visit the Tagore's biography page in Nobel prize.Org.