Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913
Name: Rabindranath Tagore
Birth: 7 May 1861, Calcutta, British ruled India
Death: 7 August 1941, Calcutta, British ruled India
Residence at the time of the award: India
Prize motivation: “because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West”
Field: Poetry
Languages: Bangali, English
Indian Poet, Bangali, English. All literary genres. Voice of India’s Spiritual Heritage. Social reformer. Promoted gender equality, empowerment of women. Indian National Movement participant. Mahathma Gandhi was his devoted friend. Founder, school in Shantiniketan. Author, National Anthem of India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka.
“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”
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Honoring Tagore
Honoring Tagore
SMARAKA GRANTHA, Sesquicentennial(150th)birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindra Bharati UniversityRabindra Jayanti – Rabindranath Tagore’s birth anniversary celebration by Bengalis around the world, a cultural festival.
Tagore International School
Rabindra Nath Tagore Medical College, Udaipur, India
>Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences
Tagore Hospital & Heart Care Centre, Jalandhar, India
Tagore Hospital & Research Institute, Jaipur, India
Rabindranath Tagore Secondary School, Mauritius.