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All about Rabindranath Tagore
All about Rabindranath Tagore
All about Rabindranath Tagore
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Introduction

Childhood and Early Age

Life at Shantiniketan

Towards the Final Years

Travels to Various Countries

Works of Rabindranath Tagore

Novels Written by Rabindranath Tagore

Non-fiction Writings

Tagore-Music and Art

Tagore and Theatre

Tagore as a Short Story Writer

Tagore’s Poetry

Tagore’s Political views

Impact

Tagore Quotes

Nobel Prize for literature 1913

Geetanjali

Song Offerings

Introduction

LanguageEnglish
PublisherRaja Sharma
Release dateAug 25, 2011
ISBN9781465985583
All about Rabindranath Tagore
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All about Rabindranath Tagore

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Chapter 1: Introduction

If there is a name in English poetry which gives birth to great respect in the hearts of people in India, it is the name of Guru Rabindra Nath Tagore, a figure who is worshipped in almost every house in West Bengal in India. Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7 May, 1861, in Calcutta (Now Kolkata). Tagore was an Indian Bengali polymath.

Rabindranath Tagore was a poet, novelist, musician, and playwright who brought many noticeable changes to Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

You will hardly find any house in West Bengal, India, in which people do not recite the verses written by Rabindranath Tagore. Being the author of Gitanjali and its profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, and being the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Rabindranath Tagore happens to be perhaps the most widely regarded Indian literary figure of all time; in fact, he has been raised to the heights of sainthood.

After the respected and highly esteemed Mahatma Gandhi, it is Rabindranath Tagore who happened to be a mesmerizing representative of the Indian culture internationally. Tagore was a great admirer of Gandhi and Tagore had

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