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essay on Contributions of Rabindra NAth Tagore towards India.

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            Contributions of Rabindra NAth Tagore towards India.

Rabinder Nath Taggore’s contributions to India have been numerous. He not only brought laurels to India by winning Nobel Prize for Literature, but also contributed to many reforms. His greatest contribution to India is the ‘National Anthem’, which all of us hear almost every day. His poetry, essays, novels, short-stories, etc. are widely read not only in India, but all across the world.

Besides being a prolific writer, poet, painter, and musician, he was an innovative educationist. He founded a unique school, Shanti Niketan, where he experimented new methods of teaching and learning. This school later on became a major launching pad for influencing, social, cultural, and political movements in the region as well as in the entire country.

His ideas about patriotism and freedom for India are beautifully expressed in his famous poem in Gitanjali:

Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been
broken up into fragments
by narrow domestic walls; ...
Where the clear stream of reason
has not lost its way into the
dreary desert sand of dead habit; ...
Into that heaven of freedom,
my Father, let my country awake.

This great son of India loved his motherland intensely.  He was strongly involved in protest against the Raj on a number of occasions, most notably in the movement to resist the 1905 British proposal to split in two the province of Bengal. To express his strong protest against the Jalianwala massacre Tagore wrote to the Viceroy of India, asking to be relieved of the knighthood he had accepted four years earlier.


These are just a few of the glimpses of his infinite majestic and grand life.