Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta in 1861, the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the reforming Brahmo Samaj. Educated mostly at home, he began writing poetry as a boy and briefly studied law in England. He managed his family's estates in rural Bengal, an experience reflected in his short stories. In 1901 he founded a school at Santiniketan, which later grew into Visva-Bharati University. He wrote poems, songs, plays, novels and essays, and composed more than two thousand songs, including those that became the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. His own English prose versions of his poems, Gitanjali (1912), introduced by W. B. Yeats, won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. He was knighted in 1915 but renounced the honor in 1919 after the Amritsar massacre. He travelled widely, lecturing on education and on the dangers of aggressive nationalism, and he took up painting late in life. He died in Calcutta in 1941.

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Faith: Son of the religious reformer Debendranath Tagore; his Gitanjali (Song Offerings) gathered his own English translations of his religious poems. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica