RABINDRANATH TAGAORE
Tagore was born in Calcutta, India on 7th may in the year 1861. After a brief study in England pursuing law he returned back to India and instead of continuing the study in law he started his career as a poet, philopher, artiest, musician, and playwritier. During the first 51 years of his life he achieved some success in area of Calcutta writing some short stories, poets. And his short stories were published in friend’s magazines and he also played a lead role in few public performances. He was just known in part of Calcutta till that day. And he was very close friend to Mohandas karam chand Gandhi.
This all suddenly changed in 1912, when he returned from England for the first time since he failed in first attempt pursuing law. So at
the age of 51 he accompanied by his son and started translating his all poems and writings into English. One of the famous poet he got name was “Gitanjali”, when the poems were published in Sep 1912 in a limited edition by Indian society in London. From thereafter both the poetry and the man were an instant sensation first in London and entire world. After that by his fame and name less than a year he won a “Noble Prize” in literature .and he became the first Asian to win a Noble prize.
Tagore was not only a creative genius he was a great man and friend to his childhood friend to the great physicist Bose. Tagore had a good grasp of modern physics and was well able to hold his own debate with great scientist “Einstein” in 1930 on new emerging principles on quantum mechanics. Although Tagore is one of the greatest representative of his country India the man who wrote its national anthem.
In 1883 Tagore married mrinalini Devi raichaudhuri, with whom he had two sons and three daughters. In 1890 Tagore moved to east Bengal, where he collected local legends and folklore. between 1893 and 1900 he wrote seven volumes of poetry, including sonar tari(the golden boat).this was highly productive period in Tagore’s life and earned him the rather misleading.” the Bengali Shelly” more important was that Tagore wrote in the common language of the people. This is also was something that was hard to accept among his critics and scholars.
Tagore was the first to bring an element of psychological realism to his novels. Among his early major prose works are the broken nest, published first serially. Between 1891 and 1895 he published forty-four short stories
Tagore was born in Calcutta, India on 7th may in the year 1861. After a brief study in England pursuing law he returned back to India and instead of continuing the study in law he started his career as a poet, philopher, artiest, musician, and playwritier. During the first 51 years of his life he achieved some success in area of Calcutta writing some short stories, poets. And his short stories were published in friend’s magazines and he also played a lead role in few public performances. He was just known in part of Calcutta till that day. And he was very close friend to Mohandas karam chand Gandhi.
This all suddenly changed in 1912, when he returned from England for the first time since he failed in first attempt pursuing law. So at
the age of 51 he accompanied by his son and started translating his all poems and writings into English. One of the famous poet he got name was “Gitanjali”, when the poems were published in Sep 1912 in a limited edition by Indian society in London. From thereafter both the poetry and the man were an instant sensation first in London and entire world. After that by his fame and name less than a year he won a “Noble Prize” in literature .and he became the first Asian to win a Noble prize.Tagore was not only a creative genius he was a great man and friend to his childhood friend to the great physicist Bose. Tagore had a good grasp of modern physics and was well able to hold his own debate with great scientist “Einstein” in 1930 on new emerging principles on quantum mechanics. Although Tagore is one of the greatest representative of his country India the man who wrote its national anthem.
In 1883 Tagore married mrinalini Devi raichaudhuri, with whom he had two sons and three daughters. In 1890 Tagore moved to east Bengal, where he collected local legends and folklore. between 1893 and 1900 he wrote seven volumes of poetry, including sonar tari(the golden boat).this was highly productive period in Tagore’s life and earned him the rather misleading.” the Bengali Shelly” more important was that Tagore wrote in the common language of the people. This is also was something that was hard to accept among his critics and scholars.
Tagore was the first to bring an element of psychological realism to his novels. Among his early major prose works are the broken nest, published first serially. Between 1891 and 1895 he published forty-four short stories
In Bengali, most of them in the monthly journal sadhanaMuch of Tagore's ideology comes from the teaching of the Upanishads and from his own beliefs that God can be found through personal purity and service to others. He stressed the need for new world order based on transnational values and ideas, the "unity consciousness." "The soil, in return for her service, keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks nothing and leaves it free." Politically active in India, Tagore was a supporter of Gandhi, but warned of the dangers of nationalistic thought. Unable to gain ideological support to his views, he retired into relative solitude. Between the years 1916 and 1934 he travelled widely. From his journey to Japan in 1916 he produced articles and books.
In 1927 he toured in Southeast Asia. Letters from java, which first was serialized in vichitra, was issued as a book, JATRI, in 1929. His Majesty, Riza Shah Pahlavi, invited Tagore to Iran in 1932. On his journeys and lecture tours Tagore attempted to spread the ideal of uniting East and West. While in Japan he wrote: "The Japanese do not waste their energy in useless screaming and quarreling, and because there is no waste of energy it is not found wanting when required. This calmness and fortitude of body and mind is part of their national self-realization."
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