Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Birthday of Rabindranath Tagore 

On this day in 1861, the Indian polymath and Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore was born in Kolkata. Tagore, who began writing poetry at eight years old, published his first major collection of poems when he was sixteen, under the pseudonym, Bhanushingho, Sun Lion. Tagore protested against the British Raj and endorsed independence for India. He was a great admirer of Mohandas Gandhi, whom he called Mahatma or Great Soul out of his deep respect.

Tagores famous volume, Gitanjali is a collection of 103 English poems, translated from Bengali. Company prior to a visit to England in 1912, the translations were very well received in the UK, where they were published in 1913, with a foreword by William Butler Yeats. In the same year, 1913, based on a small body of translations, Rabindranath became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize.

Life of Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1901)

The youngest of the 13 surviving children, was born in Tagore Jorasanko mansion in Kolkata by parents Debendranath Tagore (1817-1905) and Sarada Devi (1830-1875). Tagore family patriarchs were the Brahmo founding fathers of the Adi Dharm faith. He was mostly raised by staff, so that his mother had died in his early childhood, his father traveled a lot. Tagore largely fallen classroom schooling, preferring to roam the mansion or nearby idylls: Bolpur, Panihati, and others. As he upanayan initiation at age eleven left Tagore Kolkata February 14, 1873 to tour India with his father for several months. They visited his father's Santiniketan estate and stopped in Amritsar before reaching the Himalayan hill station, Dalhousie.

Where young "Rabi" read biographies and was home-educated in history, astronomy, modern science, and Sanskrit, and examined the poetry of Kalidasa. He completed works in 1877, pioneering Mon far poem by Maithili style by Vidyapati. Ha, a newly discovered 17th-century Vaisnava Published under the pseudonym, experts accepted them as the lost works Bhanusimha With irony and seriousness that they depicted a wide range of Bengali lifestyles, particularly village life. Ava poet. He wrote "Bhikharini" (1877, 'Beggar Woman "-the Bengali first novel) and Sandhya Sangita (1882), including the famous poem" Nirjharer Swapnabhanga "(" The rousing of the waterfall ").

A prospective barrister, Tagore enrolled at a public school in Brighton, East Sussex, England 1878th. His first was a few months in a house that Tagore family owned near Brighton and Hove, in Medina Villas, in 1877, his nephew and niece - Suren and Indira, children Satyendranath Tagore's brother - was sent with his mother ( Tagore's sister-in-law) to live with him. He studied law at University College London, but left school to Shakespeare and many more to discover: Religio Medici, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra. Less degree, he returned to Bengal in 1880. However, this exposure to English culture and language later seep into his previous acquaintance with the Bengali musical tradition, allowing him to create new forms of music, poetry and drama.

Yet Tagore neither fully embraced English strictures or his family's traditional strict Hindu religious observances, either in life or in his art, but chose to select the best of both worlds of experience.

In 1890, Tagore began managing his family's vast estates in Shilaidaha, a region now in Bangladesh, he was accompanied by his wife and children in 1898. In 1890, Tagore gave her Manasi poems, including his most famous works. As "Zamindar Babu", Tagore crossed holdings while living out of the family's luxurious barge, the Padma, to collect (mostly token) rents and bless villagers, who held festivals in his honor. The years-1891-1895: Tagore's Sadhana period, after one of Tagore's magazines - was his most prolific. During this period he wrote more than half of the stories of the three-volume, 84-story Galpaguchchha.

Ravindranath Later years and death

Tagore's last four years were marked by chronic pain and two long periods of illness. These began when Tagore lost consciousness in late 1937, he remained in a coma and near death for a long time. This was followed three years later, in late 1940, a similar spell, from which he never recovered. Poetry Tagore wrote in these years are among his best, and is distinctive for its preoccupation with death. After extended suffering, Tagore died on 7 August 1941 (22 Shravan 1348) in an upstairs room in Jorasanko mansion, where he was raised, aged 80 years. His death anniversary is mourned Bengali-speaking world. The last person to see Tagore lived Amiya Kumar Sen (brother of Sukuma Then, the first head election commissioner), Tagore dictated his last poem, SEN, who wrote it down. Sen later won the resulting draft to a museum in Kolkata.