| Name(s) |
RABINDRANATH THAKUR
(TAGORE) - commonly addressed by his sobriquet 'Gurudev'. |
| Date of
Birth |
May 07, 1861 |
| Date of
Death |
August 07, 1941 |
|
Identity |
An Indian Bengali
polymath - An outstanding creative
artist of modern India. |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- Works:
- Author of Gitanjali and its
"profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" - his
most important work among many others.
- As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he
presented a vast canon comprising paintings,
sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two
thousand songs.
- Events (Date-wise):
- 1913 - He became the first non-European to win the
Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 1915 - He was awarded a knighthood
by King George V in the 1915 Birthday Honours.
- May 30, 1919 - He
renounced the Knighthood after the April 13, 1919 Jallianwala
Bagh massacre.
- December 24, 1918 - The school, which he
named Visva-Bharati, had its foundation stone laid on
this day.
- December 23, 1921 -
Visva-Bharati was inaugurated on this day when Tagore formally started the college with proceeds from
the prize money of the Nobel Prize he received in 1913 for
the publication of his book of poems Gitanjali.
- March 25, 2004 - Tagore's Nobel Prize was stolen
from the safety vault of the Visva-Bharati
University, along with several other of his
belongings.
- December 07, 2004 - Swedish
Academy decided to present
two replicas of Tagore's Nobel Prize, one
made of gold and the other made of bronze, to the
Visva-Bharati University.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He reshaped his region's poetry, literature
and music.
- He wrote poetry when he was just eight year
old.
- At age sixteen, he released his first substantial
poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha
("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary
authorities as long-lost classics.
- In the western world, he earned a
prophet-like reputation.
- He denounced the British Raj and
advocated independence from Britain.
- The best of his works include Gitanjali
(Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced),
and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the
World).
- Besides, his verses, short stories, and novels were
also highly and widely acclaimed.
- His compositions were chosen by two nations as
national anthems:
- India's Jana Gana Mana and
- Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.
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