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Rabindranath Tagore, popularly known and called as Gurudev, was born in Kolkata on May 8, 1861 in an illusiritious family of thinkers, reformers, social and cultural leaders and intellectuals. His father was Maharishi Devendranath and mother Sharda Devi.
It was a time of gloom and cheerlessness when India’s soul almost lay prostrate at the feet of the foreign rulers. The first war of Indian independence fought in 1857 was crushed and there prevailed an uneasy peace and silence of the graveyard. Politically, India was deep in slavery and culturally in wilderness. People were foolishly aping the ways of the West and there was hardly any ray of hope of lighTagore was a great humanist, painter, patriot, poet, playwright, novelist, story-teller, philosopher, and educationist. As a cultural ambassador of India he gave voice to the country and became an instrument in spreading the knowledge of Indian culture around the world. Tagore, as a child, did not like to go to school and so was taught at home. He began to write from his early age.
Tagore began to write poems, songs and stories about different aspects of the Indian culture and society. He was very talented, energetic and wise and whatever he touched was exceptionally enriched. His genius like the rising Sun began to create wonders.
He shed light and warmth and revived the mental and moral spirit of the people. His writing proved path-breaking and revolutionary. He was full of anguish, pain and sorrow at the Jalianwala Bagh tragedy in which General Dyer and his soldiers had killed hundreds of innocent civilians and wounded thousands of others on 13 April, 1999 in Amritsar.
This massacre agitated and worked up Tagore so much that he could not sleep the whole night when he heard about it. He once decided to renounce and relinquish his knighthood as a protest and immediately penned a letter to Viceroy. And he wrote, “The time has come when pledges of honour make our shame glaring in their incongruous context of humiliation and I, for my
It was a time of gloom and cheerlessness when India’s soul almost lay prostrate at the feet of the foreign rulers. The first war of Indian independence fought in 1857 was crushed and there prevailed an uneasy peace and silence of the graveyard. Politically, India was deep in slavery and culturally in wilderness. People were foolishly aping the ways of the West and there was hardly any ray of hope of lighTagore was a great humanist, painter, patriot, poet, playwright, novelist, story-teller, philosopher, and educationist. As a cultural ambassador of India he gave voice to the country and became an instrument in spreading the knowledge of Indian culture around the world. Tagore, as a child, did not like to go to school and so was taught at home. He began to write from his early age.
Tagore began to write poems, songs and stories about different aspects of the Indian culture and society. He was very talented, energetic and wise and whatever he touched was exceptionally enriched. His genius like the rising Sun began to create wonders.
He shed light and warmth and revived the mental and moral spirit of the people. His writing proved path-breaking and revolutionary. He was full of anguish, pain and sorrow at the Jalianwala Bagh tragedy in which General Dyer and his soldiers had killed hundreds of innocent civilians and wounded thousands of others on 13 April, 1999 in Amritsar.
This massacre agitated and worked up Tagore so much that he could not sleep the whole night when he heard about it. He once decided to renounce and relinquish his knighthood as a protest and immediately penned a letter to Viceroy. And he wrote, “The time has come when pledges of honour make our shame glaring in their incongruous context of humiliation and I, for my
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