Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore 

Rabindranath Tagore 

"It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple."

"Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath—poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by sobriquets: Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi. A Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Burdwan district and Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old.

Born: Rabindranath Thakur, May 07, 1861, 25th of Baishakh, 1268 (Bengali calendar), Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Kolkata, West Bengal, India)

Died: August 07, 1941, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Kolkata, West Bengal, India)

Resting place: Ashes scattered in the Ganges

Pen name: Bhanusingha

Occupation: Poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, story-writer, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, educationist

Language: Bengali

Period: Bengali Renaissance

Literary movement: Contextual Modernism

Notable works: Gitanjali, Ghare-Baire, Gora, Jana Gana Mana, Rabindra Sangeet, Amar Shonar Bangla, (other works)

Notable awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913

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