write the biography and the music contribution of Ravindra nath tagore
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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.