Rabindranath Tagore's bequest and commitment to the field of Bengali and English Literature can be gaged from the regard his title requests at each articulation. Tagore was famously known as the Bard of Bengal and best recollected for his touchy and lovely verse that includes a enchanted touch to it. The great Indian polymath who worked as poet, writer, composer, playwright, philosopher, social reformer and painter was born on May 7 1861 (25th day of the Bengali month of Boishakh) in Calcutta to Debendranath Tagore. He was the youngest son among thirteen children.
Tagore was also alluded to as ‘Gurudev’, ‘Kabiguru’, and ‘Biswakabi’.
Tagore begun composing verse at the age of 8 and distributed his first collection at the age of 16 under the pseudonym Bhanusimha. He drew motivation by perusing the classical verse of Kalidasa and begun coming up with classical poems of his possess. Tagore was to a great extent home-schooled. In 1878 he was sent to England for formal tutoring, he left his studies halfway. His father needed him to become a barrister and his sister-in-law joined him in England to bolster him in seeking after his father’s wish but that did not move him from taking after his heart. Afterward Tagore was enlisted at the University College London where he was to study Law, but he was decided to take after his passion and he chose to ponder the works of Shakespeare on his possess. Amid his time in England, he examined English, Irish and Scottish writing, he returned to India and married Mrinalini Devi.
He was an educationist, who needed to rebuild the education framework in India, established Shantiniketan to provide education and afterward this became Viswa Bharti College. Rabindranath Tagore’s commitment to society is irrefutable. He not only promoted the Indian culture at the worldwide level but too brought with in reformist thoughts from other nations to back the advancement of India. By the time of his death in 1941, Tagore had composed over twenty-five volumes of verse, fifteen plays, ninety brief stories, eleven books and thirteen volumes of essays. His critically acclaimed work incorporates Gitanjali, a collection of verse for which he won Nobel prize in 1913, making him the first Asian Nobel Laureate in literature. The book is a part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. In addition, he broadly composed on culture, legislative issues and other viewpoints of Indian society at that time. Tagore too composed the national anthem for India ‘Jana Gana Mana’
in 1950. A few of his most celebrated works incorporate Gitanjali (1910), Kabuliwala (1961), The Postmaster (1918) to title some .
He went through the final four years of his life in steady torment and was impeded down by two long bouts of sickness. After an expanded period of suffering, Tagore passed on August 7, 1941 in the same Jorasanko house in which he was brought up.
Rabindranath Tagore was a multitalented personality. Since Rabindranath Tagore changed the way Bengali writing was seen, he left an eternal impression on numerous. Separated from numerous of his busts and statues that have been raised in numerous nations.
