Rabindranath Tagore was a poet, writer, musician, and philosopher. He was born in 1861 in Calcutta (now Kolkata) to Debendranath Tagore and Sarada devi.young Tagore was popularly called ' rabi.Music was an important part of the Tagore family.Rabi too liked the poetry and music. He wrote his first poem Banphool when he was just 15.it was later published in a magazine. Rabindranath Tagore had a keen interest in the folk music of Bengal. He used it in many of his songs. Our national anthem,jana-gana mana'was composed by him. Tagore wrote nearly 50 books and more than 3000 poems. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1913 for his book, Gitanjali. f Rabindranath believed that education was the only means through whichIndia could progress. he founded a school at shantiniketan (in west Bengal)in 1901.it is now known as the vishva bharti university.tagore devoted a great deal of his time to this school. He lived there till he passed away in 1941. Rabindra sangeet, the music of Tagore,is very popular today. It is sung and enjoyed by the people all over the world.
On the basis of your reading, answer the following questions in brief:
1. Who was Rabindranath tagore? what did he like?
2. Which was his first poem? When did he write it?
3. Which award was given to him in 1913 and for what
4. What was Rabindranath Tagore's opinion about education?
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1. Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali Rabīndranāth Ṭhākur, (born May 7, 1861, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died August 7, 1941, Calcutta), Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature.
2. Tagore wrote his first poem when he was eight years old. In 1877, at the age of 16, Tagore published his first large poetry collection and wrote his first short story and dramas. In February 1873, at age 11, Tagore went on a tour of India with his father. The tour lasted for several months.
3. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."
4. Rabindranath Tagore believed that the aim of education is self-realization. He himself was a poet and a saint, who had, through his imagination and insight, realized the universal soul in himself and in nature. He believed that this realization was the goal of education.
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1. Rabindranath Tagore was a poet, writer, musician, and philosopher. He was born in 1861 in Calcutta (now Kolkata) to Debendranath Tagore and Sarada devi.young Tagore was popularly called ' rabi. He liked the poetry and music.
2. His first poem is Banphool. when he was just 15.it was later published in a magazine.
3. Nobel prize for literature given to him in 1913 for his book, Gitanjali.
4. Rabindranath believed that education was the only means through which India could progress.
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