Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian... Wikipedia
- Born: Rabindranath Thakur, May 07, 1861, 25th of Baishakh, 1268 (Bengali calendar), Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
- Died: August 07, 1941, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
- Resting place: Ashes scattered in the Ganges
- Pen name: Bhanusingha
- Occupation: Poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, story-writer, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, educationist
- Language: Bengali
- Period: Bengali Renaissance
- Literary movement: Contextual Modernism
- Notable works: Gitanjali, Ghare-Baire, Gora, Jana Gana Mana, Rabindra Sangeet, Amar Shonar Bangla, (other works)
- Notable awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913
- Children: 5, including Rathindranath Tagore
- Relatives: Tagore family
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