Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was born on 7 May 1861 Calcutta.
His father Debendranath Tagore was a leading light in the Brahmo Samaj – a reforming Hindu organisation which sought to promote a monotheistic interpretation of the Upanishads and move away from the rigidity of Hindu Orthodoxy which they felt was holding back India.
Rabindranath Tagore is best known as a poet but he was a man of many talents. On the one hand, he was the first Indian to win a Nobel for literature and on the other, a novelist who wrote and composed an entire genre of songs. … Tagore was a painter who played an important role in modernising Bengali art.
Tagore’s best known collection of poetry is Gitanjali. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913 for it. ‘Manasi’, ‘Sonar Tori’ – Golden Boat, ‘Balaka’ – Wild Geese are some other notable works. Rabindranath Tagore is considered as the pioneer of Bangla literature and culture.
Rabindranath Tagore had renounced the British knighthood in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919. … The award that he did renounce, as a mark of protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919, was the knighthood bestowed upon him by the British. – WIKIPEDIA
I consulted two dictionaries of quotations, the Oxford and Penguin, to check the most memorable lines of this poet, novelist, essayist, song and short story writer. Not a single entry. They skipped from Tacitus to Hippolyte Taine as if there was nothing in Tagore’s collected works (28 thick books, even with his 2,500 songs published separately) that ever had stuck in anyone’s mind, or was so pithily expressed that it deserved to; as if what had come out of Tagore’s pen was a kind of oriental ectoplasm, floating high above our materialist western heads, and ungraspable. In fact, I could remember one line clearly enough, and vaguely remember a whole stanza. The first is how he described the Taj Mahal: like “a teardrop on the face of eternity”. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/may/07/rabindranath-tagore-why-was-he-neglected
BHUBANESWAR: The recent decision of Odisha’s Puri Municipality to demolish the ancestral house of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore located on Chakratirtha Road at Puri has evoked sharp reactions from across the state.
The Patherpuri house, which was built by the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, is an iconic building, more than 100 years old, and an invaluable heritage structure. The place was home to the famous poet who loved Puri, and where he had composed some of his famous literary works, including his magnum opus Gitanjali.
https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/090120/house-where-tagore-composed-gitanjali-may-be-razed.html
A Taste of Tagore: Poetry, Prose and Prayers
The BOOK, A Taste of Tagore brings together a selection of the magical poetry, elegant prose, prayers and contemplations of Rabindranath Tagore, India’s first Nobel Laureate. Tagore believed in the essential oneness of humanity, and worked to bring about cohesion and harmony between religions, cultures and countries. In his own lifestyle he embraced simplicity and moderation in consumption. This new selection of his writings shows the diversity, depth and spirituality of this remarkable man.
The publishing of this book coincides with UNESCO’s declaration of 2011 as the Year of Tagore to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth in Bengal. – Found under Books by Tagore Online
A Fellow Visionary, Peace Maker and Sage of Wisdom, Rabindranath Tagore was Unorthodox as well as an Educated Man of Enlightenment and Culture who received little recognition for his many talents and gifts he left to the world.
GREAT MINDS SEEK EACH OTHERS COMPANIONSHIP IN ORDER TO FEEL SANITY OF COMFORT IN A WORLD OF CHAOS DUE TO THE MADNESS OF MISGUIDED MEN ENSLAVED BY THEIR CONCEPTS OF FALSE WEALTH AND PURSUIT OF SHALLOW AND TEMPORARY FULFILLMENT.
– Anna M Smith
