Rabindranath Tagore
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Destination Unknown Some poems in Bangla script:
Balaka
Tomi ki kabali
Khapchara
Sonar Tori
Pran
Monepara
Patrolekha
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a
leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in
nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate
monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He was educated at
home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he
did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his
many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which
brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in
social reforms. He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he
tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. From time to time he participated in
the Indian nationalist movement, though in his own non-sentimental and
visionary way; and Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his
devoted friend. Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915,
but within a few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British
policies in India. Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal.
With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West.
In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents on
lecture tours and tours of friendship. For the world he became the voice of
India's spiritual heritage; and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a
great living institution. Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary
genres, he was first of all a poet. Among his fifty and 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 Cranes]. The English renderings 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 in spite of its title, Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912), the most
acclaimed of them, contains poems from other works besides its namesake.
Tagore's major plays are Raja (1910) [The King of the Dark Chamber], Dakghar
(1912) [The Post Office], Achalayatan (1912) [The Immovable], Muktadhara (1922)
[The Waterfall], and Raktakaravi (1926) [Red Oleanders]. He is the author of
several volumes of short stories and a number of novels, among them Gora
(1910), Ghare-Baire (1916) [The Home and the World], and Yogayog (1929)
[Crosscurrents]. Besides these, he wrote musical dramas, dance dramas, essays
of all types, travel diaries, 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 wrote the music
himself.Rabindranath Tagore died in 1941. Copyright© 1997 The Nobel Foundation
Last updated by September 11, 1998
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