Know about the Youngest Son of Debendranath Tagore: Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of Brahmo Samaj, that was a new religious sect in Bengal in the 19th century and who attempted a resurgence of the last monistic basis of Hinduism as set out in the Upanishads. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for a formal education, he did not finish his studies there. In his years of maturity, in addition to his many literary activities, he directed the family properties, a project that put him in close contact with the common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. He also started an experimental school in Shantiniketan where he proved his ideals of education of the Upanishads. From time to time he participated in the Indian nationalist movement, although in his non-sentimental and visionary way; and Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend. Tagore was knighted by the British government in 1915, but in a few years, he resigned his honor as a protest against British policies in India.
Tagore had an early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations of some of his poems, he became quickly known in the West. In fact, his fame reached a luminous height, taking him across the continents on tours of conferences and friendship tours. For the world it became the voice of the spiritual heritage of India; and for India, especially for Bengal, it became a great living institution.
Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first and foremost a poet. Among his fifty odd volumes of poetry are Manasi (1890) [The Ideal One], Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat], Gitanjali (1910) [Song Offerings], Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs], and Balaka (1916) [The flight of the cranes]. The English representations of his poetry, which include The Gardener (1913), Fruit-Gathering (1916) and The Fugitive (1921), do not generally correspond to particular volumes in the original Bengali; and despite its title, Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912), the most acclaimed of them, contains poems from other works besides its namesake. The main works of Tagore are Raja (1910) [The king of the dark chamber], Dakghar (1912) [The post office], Achalayatan (1912) [The immovable one], Muktadhara (1922) [The waterfall] and Raktakaravi (1926) [Red oleanders]. He is the author of several volumes of short stories and several novels, including Gora (1910), Ghare-Baire (1916) [The Home and the World], and Yogayog (1929) [Crosscurrents]. In addition to these, he wrote musical dramas, dance dramas, essays of all kinds, travel journals and two autobiographies, one in his middle years and the other shortly before his death in 1941. Tagore also left numerous drawings and paintings, and songs for which He himself wrote the music.
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Facts:
The Nobel Prize for Literature 1913
He was born on May 7, 1861 in Calcutta, India.
Deceased on August 7, 1941 in Calcutta, India.
Residence at the time of the award: India
Award-winning motivation: "Because of his deeply sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, for which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own words in English, a part of western literature."
Language: Bengali and English.
The writing of Rabindranath Tagore is deeply rooted in both Indian and Western learning traditions. In addition to fiction in the form of poetry, songs, stories and dramas, it also includes representations of the lives of ordinary people, literary criticism, philosophy and social issues. Rabindranath Tagore originally wrote in Bengali, but then reached a wide audience in the West after rethinking his poetry in English. In contrast to the frenetic life in the West, his poetry was felt to transmit the peace of the soul in harmony with nature.
By: Preeti Narula
Content: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1913/tagore/biographical/