Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore: (born May 7, 1861, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died August 7, 1941, Calcutta),
Rabindranath Tagore, India's first Nobel laureate, was born in Kolkata on May 7, 1861. He was a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. Tagore was known as the Bard of Bengal and Gurudev.
His father was Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, and his mother was Sarada Devi. He was the youngest of seven siblings. Due to Tagore's mother died in his early childhood, he was brought up by servants. Rabindranath Tagore, earlier known as Robindronath Thakur (nickname Rabi), was a Rarhi Brahmins with his original sir name kushari.At the age of 8 years, Rabindranath Tagore started writing poems and less than a decade later, released his collection to the world under ‘Bhanusimha’, his pseudonym. He is also the man behind the national anthems for three different nations. India’s Jana Gana Mana, Bangladesh’s Amar Sonar Bangla’, and Sri Lanka’s ‘Sri Lanka Mata’.
In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in Literature and the second non-European to receive a Nobel Prize after Theodore Roosevelt for Gitanjali, his best-known collection of poetry.
Rabindranath Tagore got his first work his first published at the age of 16 years under the pseudonym Bhanusimha. Also known as Gurudev, Kabiguru and Biswakabi, he was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his poetry collection Gitanjali in 1913.
Tagore’s works including Ghare Baire, Chokher Bali, Jogajog, Gora and Monihara still hold relevance today. Many renowned filmmakers have made brought his works to life on screen including Rituparno Ghosh, Satyajit Ray and Tapan Sinha.
The Nobel laureate also penned Rabindra Sangeet, a collection of over 2,000 songs.
Tagore even contributed immensely to Bengali art and culture and achieved fame as a painter as well. He founded Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan in 1921, which remains one of the oldest Central universities in the country.
Tagore holds the unique distinction of having composed the national anthems of two nations- India and Bangladesh.
Rabindranath Tagore quotes:
* If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
* Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storms but to add colour to my sunset sky.
* Music fills the infinite between two souls.
* What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
* Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
* Love does not claim possession but gives freedom.
* By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
* Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
* Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
* We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
* Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
* If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
* Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
* Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
* Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged man.
Some Facts about Rabindranath Tagore are:
* Rabindranath Tagore was the youngest of 14 children to parents Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi.
* He also wrote the national anthem of Bangladesh Amar Sonar Bangla and Sri Lanka's national anthem was inspired by his work.
* Tagore is credited with calling Gandhiji Mahatma for the first time.
* King George V of England honoured Rabindranath Tagore for his contribution to the field of Literature in 1915. But following the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Gurudev gave up his title.
* Rabindranath Tagore was invited by Albert Einstein to his home. They talked about religion and science.
* He became the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
* He used his Nobel Prize money to construct a school.
* His Nobel Prize medal was stolen in a theft at Shantiniketan in 2004. The Swedish Academy offered two replicas as a replacement, one made of gold and the other made of bronze.
* Gurudev began his career in short stories in 1877 when he was only sixteen with "Bhikharini which means 'The Beggar Woman'.
* He wrote eight novels and four novellas including Char Odhay, Chaturanga and Shesher Kobita.
* Among his fifty-odd volumes of poetry include Yogayug, Dakghar, Gitanjali, Manasi, and Gora, among others.
* He passed on August 7, 1941, at the age of 80.
* People realised that Rabindranath Tagore was red-green blind because of his strange colour schemes and off-beat aesthetics in his paintings.
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