Date of Birth: May 7, 1861
Place of Birth: Calcutta, British India
Date of Death: August 7, 1941
Place of Death: Calcutta, British India
Profession: Writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, painter
Children: Renuka Tagore, Shamindranath Tagore, Meera Tagore,
Rathindranath Tagore and Madhurilata Tagore
Father: Debendranath Tagore
Mother: Sarada Devi
Award: Nobel Prize in Literature (1913)
- Good afternoon, my name is Rabindranath Tagore.
- May 7, 1861. Born in Calcutta, British India
- Father: Debendranath Tagore
Mother: Sarada Devi
- I’ve altogether of 13 siblings and I’m the youngest of all.
- raised by maid, because mother died, and father travels.
- Like writing, and my first poem was written when I was 8. also wrote
short stories and poem collection later on.
- Motivation: reading the classical poetry of Kalidasa, brothers and
sisters.
- Trained at home among siblings: gymnastics, martial arts, anatomy,
literature, history and mathematics
- In 1873, joined my father to travel and learned about Sikhism. (motivates to
write more poem and articles.)
- I was sent to England in the year 1878 as my father wanted me to become
a barrister.
- My traditional education began in Brighton, East Sussex, England, at a
public school.
- Enter University in London but dropped out and learned several works of
Shakespeare on my own.
- Learn literatures
- Returned to India and married Mrinalini Devi
- My father bought land in santiniketan. Building experimental school. using
Guru-Shishya method of teaching.
- want to prove that ancient method of teaching = better than modernised
method.
- My wife and two of his children die.
- Gained motivation and create many works. become well known
- 1913 Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in
Literature, becoming Asia's first Nobel laureate.
- believed in the concept of one world, he set out on a world tour, in an
attempt to spread my ideologies
- USA, Japan, Mexico, Singapore and Italy.
- Met famous people, Einstein and Mussolini. Talking to many world leaders.
- My initial aim was to put an end to nationalism, Rabindranath over a period
of time realized that nationalism was mightier than my ideology, and hence
developed further hatred towards it.
Beside from being a poet, I was also an actor in plays I wrote named ‘Valmiki
Pratibha.’
- Moreover, my styles had certain peculiarities in aesthetics and coloring
schemes, which distinguished it from those of other artists.
- Though I denounced nationalism, I also vouched for the Indian
independence through some of my politically charged songs.
- I also supported Indian nationalists and publicly criticized European
imperialism.
- criticized the education system that was forced upon India by the English.
- In 1915, I received knighthood from the British Crown, which he later
renounced it. I said that the “knighthood meant nothing to me when the
British failed to even consider my fellow Indians as humans.
Legacy
- changed the way Bengali literature was viewed, he left an
everlasting impression on many.
- Many of my works were made international,thank you to the translators.
- Lastly, thx that 5 museums were built for me.
Died
- August 7, 1941
