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<h1>Rabinderanath</br>
Tagore</h1>
<h2 id="cap">THE bard of </br>
the bengal</h2>
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<p id="caption"><center>"The last two days a storm has been raging, similar to the description in my song—Jhauro jhauro borishe baridhara a hapless, homeless man drenched from top to toe standing on the roof of his steamer the last two days I have been singing this song over and over as a result the pelting sound of the intense rain, the wail of the wind, the sound of the heaving Gorai river, have assumed a fresh life and found a new language and I have felt like a major actor in this new musical drama unfolding before me."
— Letter to Indira Devi."</center></p>
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<p>Rabindranath Tagore, also written Ravīndranātha Thākura(7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941),sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal".Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. From time to time he participated in the Indian nationalist movement, though in his own non-sentimental and visionary way; and Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend. Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British policies in India.</p></td>
<td><p>Tagore's experiences with drama began when he was sixteen, with his brother Jyotirindranath. He wrote his first original dramatic piece when he was twenty — Valmiki Pratibha which was shown at the Tagore's mansion. Tagore stated that his works sought to articulate "the play of feeling and not of action". In 1890 he wrote Visarjan (an adaptation of his novella Rajarshi), which has been regarded as his finest drama. Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West. In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents on lecture tours and tours of friendship. For the world he became the voice of India's spiritual heritage; and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a great living institution.
Because Debendranath wanted his son to become a barrister, Tagore enrolled at a public school in Brighton, East Sussex, England in 1878. He stayed for several months at a house that the Tagore family owned near Brighton and Hove, in Medina Villas; in 1877 his nephew and niece—Suren and Indira Devi, the children of Tagore's brother Satyendranath—were sent together with their mother, Tagore's sister-in-law, to live with him. He briefly read law at University College London, but again left school, opting instead for independent study of Shakespeare's plays Religio Medici, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra. Lively English, Irish, and Scottish folk tunes impressed Tagore, whose own tradition of Nidhubabu-authored kirtans and tappas and Brahmo hymnody was subdued. In 1880 he returned to Bengal degree-less, resolving to reconcile European novelty with Brahmo traditions, taking the best from each.
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<p><center><i><b>Rabindranath Tagore</b><br>
<b>Born:</b> 7 May 1861, Calcutta, India<br>
<b>Died:</b> 7 August 1941, Calcutta, India<br>
<b>Residence at the time of the award:</b>India<br>
<b>Prize motivation:</b> "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"<br>
<b>Field:</b>poetry<br>
<b>language: </b>Bengali and English</i></center></p><br>
<h2><i><center>1901</center></i></h2><p class="zip">Asia’s first Nobel Laureate </p>
<h2><i><center>1921</center></i></h2><p class="zip">The school was elevated to Visva-Bharati University </p>
<h2><i><center>1931</center></i></h2><p class="zip">Creating Hindu-Muslim fellowship </p>
<h2><i><center>1935</center></i></h2><p class="zip">A New History of India. Wolpert explains </p>
<h2><center><i>1940</i></h2></center><p class="zip">World's first Nobel Laureate </p>
<h2><i><center>1941</center></i></h2><p class="zip">Tagore says a 'GOODBYE' </p>
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<p>Tagore wrote eight novels and four novellas, among them Chaturanga, Shesher Kobita, Char Odhay, and Noukadubi. Ghare Baire (The Home and the World)—through the lens of the idealistic zamindar protagonist Nikhil—excoriates rising Indian nationalism, terrorism, and religious zeal in the Swadeshi movement; a frank expression of Tagore's conflicted sentiments, it emerged from a 1914 bout of depression. The novel ends in Hindu-Muslim violence and Nikhil's—likely mortal—wounding.[108]Gora raises controversial questions regarding the Indian identity. As with Ghare Baire, matters of self-identity (jāti), personal freedom, and religion are developed in the context of a family story and love triangle.[109] In it an Irish boy orphaned in the Sepoy Mutiny is raised by Hindus as the titular gora—"whitey".</p></td>
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<p>Internationally, Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি) is Tagore's best-known collection of poetry, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913. Tagore was the first person (excepting Roosevelt) outside Europe to get the Nobel Prize.Besides Gitanjali, other notable works include Manasi, Sonar Tori ("Golden Boat"), Balaka ("Wild Geese" — the title being a metaphor for migrating souls)Tagore's poetic style, which proceeds from a lineage established by 15th- and 16th-century Vaishnava poets, ranges from classical formalism to the comic, visionary, and ecstatic. He was influenced by the atavistic mysticism of Vyasa and other rishi-authors of the Upanishads, the Bhakti-Sufi mystic Kabir, and Ramprasad Sen.</p></td>
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