Rabindranath Tagore was a poet, musician, polymath, Ayurveda -researcher and artist who recast tune, Bengali literature and Indian artwork in the past due 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore turned into the primary non-european to win Nobel Prize in Literature. Rabindranath Tagore become additionally referred to as ‘the Bard of Bengal’. these days is Rabindranath Tagore’s 159th Jayanti or beginning Anniversary.
Rabindranath Tagore:-
birth, youth, circle of relatives and schooling Rabindranath Tagore was born as Robindronath Thakur on may also 7, 1861, to Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (gift-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India). Tagore’s mom Sarada Devi died while he was a baby and his father Debendranath Tagore travelled plenty.
Therefore, Tagore became raised through servants. Dwijendranath, Rabindranath Tagore’s oldest brother, was a logician and poet. Tagore’s other brother Satyendranath was the first Indian to be appointed within the Indian Civil carrier. His brother, Jyotirindranath, was a musician, composer, and playwright while his sister Swarnakumari was a novelist.
Rabindranath’s brother Hemendranath taught him anatomy, geography and records, literature, mathematics, Sanskrit, and English. at the age of 11 after his Janeu, Tagore toured India along with his father. Rabindranath Tagore visited his father’s Santiniketan property and stayed in Amritsar for a month earlier than achieving the Himalayan hill station of Dalhousie wherein Tagore examine biographies, studied history, astronomy, contemporary technological know-how, Sanskrit, and tested the classical poetry of ‘Kalidasa’.
Tagore became exceptionally motivated with the aid of the Gurbani and Nanak Bani which were sung at Golden Temple, Amritsar. In 1882, Tagore made his debut with a short story in Bengali ‘Bhikarini’.
In 1878, Rabindra Nath Tagore enrolled himself at a public faculty in England due to the fact his father desired him to be a barrister. Tagore read law at college university, London, however opted out once more to study independently. He study Shakespeare’s performs Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra and the Religio Medici of Thomas Browne which distinctly impressed him.
In 1880, Tagore returned to Bengal without any degree and started publishing poems, tales and novels. despite the fact that he failed to acquire any reputation on the country wide stage but became famous in Bengal.
Rabindranath Tagore:- Death
In late 1937, Rabindranath Tagore began losing consciousness and remained in a coma for a long period. In 1940, Tagore again went into a coma and never recovered. After years of chronic pain and long term illness, Tagore died on August 7, 1941, at the age of 80 years. Rabindranath Tagore took his last breath in the mansion he was brought up.
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non-public existence and excellent Works In 1883, Tagore married Mrinalini Devi (who was 10 years vintage at that time) and the couple had 5 youngsters (2 died in early early life). In 1890, Tagore started coping with his ancestral estates in Shelaidaha (present-day in Bangladesh) and his spouse joined him in 1898 with their kids. In 1890, Tagore launched one in all his best poems ‘Manasi’. all through 1891-1895, Tagore wrote more than half of the stories of ‘Galpaguchchha’.
In 1901, Rabindranath Tagore moved to Santiniketan in which he located ‘The Mandir’ which was an experimental college having timber, gardens and a library. Tagore’s wife and a pair of kids died at Santiniketan and Tagore lost his father in 1905. Tagore received month-to-month payments from Maharaja of Tripura (as part of his inheritance), sales of his family’s jewellery, his beach bungalow in Puri, and a derisory 2,000 rupees in ebook royalties. In 1901, Tagore published ‘Naivedya’ and in 1906, he published ‘Kheya’.
In 1913, Tagore won Nobel Prize in Literature. King George V presented Tagore with 1915 Birthday Honours which the later deserted after the Jallianwala Bagh bloodbath in 1919 and wrote a letter for the identical to Lord Chelmsford, the then British Viceroy of India.
In 1919, Rabindranath Tagore changed into invited by Syed Abdul Majid (also called Kaptan Miah) to visit Sylhet, where over 5000 human beings collected. Syed Abdul Majid changed into the president and chairman of Anjuman-e-Islamia.
In 1921, Tagore at the side of Leonard Elmhirst (agricultural economist), installation the ‘Institute for Rural Reconstruction’ which was later renamed ‘Shriniketan’ in Surul.
Tagore began receiving donations from Indians and around the sector to unfastened the Indian villages from the shackles of helplessness and ignorance by using strengthening their know-how. In 1930, Tagore lectured towards ‘peculiar caste recognition’ and ‘untouchability’. He campaigned towards these troubles, penned several poems and in the end controlled to open the doors of Guruvayoor Temple to Dalits.
In might also 1932, Rabindranath Tagore visited the Bedouin encampment in which the tribal leader stats that as according to Prophet Muhammad true Muslim is one through whose phrases and deeds no longer the least of his brother-men may additionally ever come to any harm. In 1934, Bihar changed into hit by way of an earthquake and killed hundreds of people which Gandhi hailed as Karma. Tagore become of a specific view and rebuked Gandhi for his implications.
Tagore mourned the poverty of Calcutta and the decline of Benga which he penned in one hundred-line poem. In 1932, Tagore published his prose-poem works– Punashcha, Shes Saptak in 1935 and Patraout in 1936. In 1914, Tagore published his prose-songs and dance drama works in Chitra, Shyama in 1939 and Chandalika in 1938. Tagore published three novels– Dui Bon in 1933, Malancha and Char Adhyay in 1934. Rabindranath Tagore after inclining closer to technological know-how wrote tales- Se in 1937, Tin Sangi in 1940 and Galpasalpa in 1941.
Rabindranath Tagore:
Drama Rabindranath Tagore along with his brother Jyotirindranath started experiencing drama at the age of sixteen. At the age of 20, Tagore wrote his first original dramatic piece ‘Valmiki Pratibha’. In 1890, Tagore wrote ‘Visarjan’– his finest drama. In 1912, Tagore wrote ‘Dak Ghar’ where the child Amal defying his stuffy and puerile confines by ultimately fall asleep. Tagore defined death as ‘spiritual freedom from the world of hoarded wealth and certified creeds’. Tagore’s other play was ‘Chandalika’ the story of an untouchable girl and described how Ananda (disciple of Gautama Buddha), asks a tribal girl for water.
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Songs Rabindranath Tagore composed nearly 2,230 songs which are known as ‘Rabindrasangit’. Tagore was highly influenced by the thumri style of Hindustani music. In 1971, Rabindranath Tagore wrote a poem ‘ Amar Sonar Bangla'(National Anthem of Bangladesh), to protest the Partition of Bengal in 1905 on communal lines. The Bengal partition cut off the Muslim majority East Bengal from the Hindu majority West Bengal. Tagore wrote ‘Jana Gana Mana’ (National Anthem of India) which was first composed as ‘Bharat Bhagyo Bidhata’.
In 1911, ‘Jana Gana Mana’ was first at Calcutta (present-day Kolkata) session of INC and was adopted as the National Anthem of India in 1950. ‘Sri Lanka Matha’ is the National Anthem of Sri Lanka and was inspired by Tagore’s work. Sitar maestro Vilayat Khan and sarodiyas Buddhadev Dasgupta and Amjad Ali Khan are all inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s work.
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inventive works Rabindranath Tagore at the age of sixty years commenced drawing and portray. After the encouragement via artists of France, Tagore’s work made a debut look in Paris. it is stated that Tagore changed into crimson-inexperienced coloration blind and his works of art mirror strange coloration schemes. In 1900, Tagore wrote to Jagadishchandra Bose about his drawings.
Tagore withdrew from painting as he became using eraser more than the pencil and turned into dissatisfied with his paintings. currently, Tagore’s 102 works are listed through India’s country wide Gallery of present day artwork lists in its collections.