Question

write a short note on Rabindranath Tagore..

Answer 1

Rabindranath Tagore was a great poet, patriot, philosopher, humanist, and painter. He was born in Jorasanka, Calcutta on 7th of May in 1861 in his ancestral home to the Maharsi Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi. He was 14th child of his parents however different from others. He got his proper education and knowledge about various subjects at home by the private teachers. He was very young when started writing poems, some of them were published in the periodicals.

He went to England for his higher education but was not satisfied by the traditional system of education there. He returned to India and opened his own school named Santiniketan in Bolpur, Birbhum, Bengal. This school later became a college and then a university (Visva-Bharati). He was honored with the Nobel Prize for ‘Gitanjali’ in 1913. He was also awarded with Knighthood by the British Crown however he returned as a mark of protest against massacre in Jallianwalabagh.

Answer 2

Rabindranath Tagore, the writer of our national anthem, was born on May 7, 1861. He was born in a rich and cultured family at Jorasanko in Calcutta (now Kolkata).  His father’s name was Devendranath Tagore and mother’s name was Shardadevi. He is also popularly known as Gurudev. He was the fourteenth child of his parents.

At the age of eleven, his ability to write beautiful verses and to describe any event with clarity came to the knowledge of his headmaster at school. However, he disliked formal schooling. On the insistence of his brother, he went to England to study but returned without completing his studies. He was interested in two main topics: human relationship and his motherland.

Tagore was a great humanist, painter, patriot, poet, playwright, novelist, story-teller, philosopher, and educationist. He travelled extensively in different countries of Europe, America and Asia and delivered lectures in universities and public meeting on education.

His best known work is Gitanjali. He got Nobel Prize for literature in 1913 for this work. Beside poetry, he wrote plays, dance dramas, stories and novels. He founded the Vishwa Bharti University, Shantiniketan. Tagore also created numerous drawings, paintings and songs, for which he wrote the music and lyrics himself.

Tagore was a great humanist, painter, patriot, poet, playwright, novelist, story-teller, philosopher, and educationist.