education about Rabindranath Tagore
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Born: 7 May, 1861
Place of Birth: Calcutta, British India
Penname: Bhanu Singha Thakur (Bhonita)
Father: Debendranath Tagore
Mother: Sarada Devi
Spouse: Mrinalini Devi
Children: Renuka Tagore, Shamindranath Tagore, Meera Tagore, Rathindranath Tagore and Madhurilata Tagore
Died: 7 August, 1941
Place of Death: Calcutta, British India
Profession: Writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, painter
Language: Bengali, English
Award: Nobel Prize in Literature (1913)
Let us tell you that Rabindranath Tagore was a multi-talented personality with a great desire to learn new things. His contributions to the literature, music and his several works are unforgettable. People not only in West Bengal but also in whole India remember him and his contributions on his birth anniversary. Even in 1913, he was awarded the most prestigious Nobel Prize for his great contribution to the Indian literature. Do you know that he was the first person from Asia to receive this award? We can't forget that he is the person who had composed the National Anthem of India.
Rabindranath Tagore: Early life and Childhood Days
He was born on 7 May, 1861 to Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi in the Jorasanko mansion which is the ancestral home of the Tagore family in Kolkata (Calcutta). Among his siblings, he was the youngest. He lost his mother when he was very young, his father was a traveller and so, he was mostly raised by his servants and maids. At a very young age, he was the part of the Bengal renaissance and his family also took active participation in it. At the age of 8, he started writing poems and by the age of sixteen, he also started composing artworks and started publishing his poems under the pseudonym Bhanusimha. In 1877 he wrote short story 'Bhikharini' and in 1882 the collection of poems 'Sandhya Sangit'.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is one of the best known Indian writers, who wrote both in his mother tongue Bangla and in English. He was a poet, playwright, novelist, painter, educator and musician, He translated a collection of his poems, Gitanjali, which was published in 1912. In 1913 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He is the author of the Indian National Anthem as well as the National Anthem of Bangladesh.