essay of 150 words on the topic TAGORE A VERSATILE PERSONALITY please answer fast
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Tagore is best known as a poet but he was a man of many talents. On the one hand, he was the first Indian to win a Nobel for literature and on the other, a novelist who wrote and composed an entire genre of songs. He was a philosopher and educationist who established a university that challenged conventional education. He was a painter who played an important role in modernising Bengali art. And he was a nationalist who gave up his knighthood to protest British policies in colonial India after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
It is not only a pity, but somewhat strange too, that a large part of Tagore’s thinking, entrepreneurships, and activism towards socio-economic transformation of Bengal and our country at large has still remained relatively unheeded and perhaps unknown in wider academic and official circles (for example, they were confined to relatively small pockets in rural Bengal, and many of his speeches and essays on these issues are yet to be translated from the original Bengali into other languages including English). Ironically, the potential—hitherto almost entirely untapped —social benefits derivable from our more adequate attention and appreciation of Tagore as a socio-economic and educational reformist and social activist would arguably not compare unfavourably with the actual social gains that we have reaped so far from our overwhelming affinity towards him merely as a cultural, literary, and spiritual grandee. Compared to the mammoth magnitude of tributes, celebrations, admirations, enthusiasms on Tagore’s poetry, songs, drama, and stories, there has always been a relative ambivalence towards Tagore’s down-to-earth practical and activist persona and his concrete efforts and ideas in the spheres of socio-economic development, educational expansion, health and environmental improvements.
This is not only partly prejudicial, but it is partly costly too to the society and country at large. It is doubtful as to whether Tagore’s grassroots level experiments (for example, at Santiniketan and Sriniketan), his considerable amount of writings and speeches, his visions and ideas pertaining to quality and expansion of education, rural development and reconstruction have ever been involved and considered seriously in our post-independence endeavours, aspirations, initiatives, policy formulation, and various programmes for socio-economic development of the country.