Rabindranath Tagore Wikipedia. Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore c. 1. 92. Native name Born. Rabindranath Thakur1. May 1. 86. 1Calcutta, British India1Died. August 1. 94. 11. Calcutta, British India1Occupation. Writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, painter. Language. Bengali, English. Nationality. British Indian. Literary movement. Contextual Modernism. Notable works. Gitanjali, Gora, Ghare Baire, Jana Gana Mana, Rabindra Sangeet, Amar Shonar Bangla other worksNotable awards. Nobel Prize in Literature. Rabindranath Tagore FRAS r b n d r n t t r listen Bengali robindronat akur, also written Ravndrantha Thkura. Sangeet Bhuvan Dedicated to Hemanta Mukherjee the Legendary Singer, the greatest exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, the versatile Music Director the Doyen of. Saregama. com presents Enakkoru Aasai. Listen to and download popular and hit Tamil songs and Tamil music albums on Saregama. com. Spouse. Mrinalini Devi m.  1. Children. 5 two of whom died in childhoodRelatives. Tagore family. Signature. Locations of places associated with Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath TagoreaFRAS   listen Bengali robindronat akur, also written Ravndrantha Thkura2 7 May 1. August 1. 94. 1,bsobriquet. Gurudev,c was a Bengalipolymath45 who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 1. Author of Gitanjali and its profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, he became the first non European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1. Tagores poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial however, his elegant prose and magical poetry remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as the Bard of Bengal. 9A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight year old. At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhnusiha Sun Lion, which were seized upon by literary authorities as long lost classics. By 1. 87. 7 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. As a humanist, universalist internationalist, and ardent anti nationalist,1. British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs his legacy also endures in the institution he founded, Visva Bharati University. 1. Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali Song Offerings, Gora Fair Faced and Ghare Baire The Home and the World are his best known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimedor pannedfor their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems Indias Jana Gana Mana and Bangladeshs Amar Shonar Bangla. The Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work. 1. Early life 1. 86. The youngest of thirteen surviving children, Tagore nicknamed Rabi was born on 7 May 1. Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta to Debendranath Tagore 1. Sarada Devi 1. 83. The last two days a storm has been raging, similar to the description in my songJhauro jhauro borishe baridhara  . I have been singing this song over and over . as a result the pelting sound of the intense rain, the wail of the wind, the sound of the heaving Gorai River, have assumed a fresh life and found a new language and I have felt like a major actor in this new musical drama unfolding before me. Letter to Indira Devi. Tagore and his wife Mrinalini Devi, 1. Tagore was raised mostly by servants his mother had died in his early childhood and his father travelled widely. The Tagore family was at the forefront of the Bengal renaissance. They hosted the publication of literary magazines theatre and recitals of Bengali and Western classical music featured there regularly. Tagores father invited several professional Dhrupad musicians to stay in the house and teach Indian classical music to the children. Tagores oldest brother Dwijendranath was a philosopher and poet. Another brother, Satyendranath, was the first Indian appointed to the elite and formerly all European Indian Civil Service. Yet another brother, Jyotirindranath, was a musician, composer, and playwright. His sister Swarnakumari became a novelist. 3. Jyotirindranaths wife Kadambari Devi, slightly older than Tagore, was a dear friend and powerful influence. Her abrupt suicide in 1. Tagore largely avoided classroom schooling and preferred to roam the manor or nearby Bolpur and Panihati, which the family visited. His brother Hemendranath tutored and physically conditioned himby having him swim the Ganges or trek through hills, by gymnastics, and by practising judo and wrestling. He learned drawing, anatomy, geography and history, literature, mathematics, Sanskrit, and Englishhis least favourite subject. Tagore loathed formal educationhis scholarly travails at the local Presidency College spanned a single day. Years later he held that proper teaching does not explain things proper teaching stokes curiosity After his upanayan coming of age rite at age eleven, Tagore and his father left Calcutta in February 1. India for several months, visiting his fathers Santiniketan estate and Amritsar before reaching the Himalayanhill station of Dalhousie. There Tagore read biographies, studied history, astronomy, modern science, and Sanskrit, and examined the classical poetry of Klidsa. 3. During his 1 month stay at Amritsar in 1. Golden Temple for which both father and son were regular visitors. He mentions about this in his MY REMINISCENCES 1. The golden temple of Amritsar comes back to me like a dream. Many a morning have I accompanied my father to this Gurudarbar of the Sikhs in the middle of the lake. There the sacred chanting resounds continually. My father, seated amidst the throng of worshippers, would sometimes add his voice to the hymn of praise, and finding a stranger joining in their devotions they would wax enthusiastically cordial, and we would return loaded with the sanctified offerings of sugar crystals and other sweets. 3. He wrote 6 poems relating to Sikhism and no. Bengali child magazine about Sikhism. 4. Tagore returned to Jorosanko and completed a set of major works by 1. Maithili style of Vidyapati. As a joke, he claimed that these were the lost works of what he claimed was a newly discovered 1. Vaiava poet Bhnusiha. 4. Regional experts accepted them as the lost works of Bhnusiha. e He debuted in the short story genre in Bengali with Bhikharini The Beggar Woman. Published in the same year, Sandhya Sangit 1. Nirjharer Swapnabhanga The Rousing of the Waterfall. Shelaidaha 1. 87. Because Debendranath wanted his son to become a barrister, Tagore enrolled at a public school in Brighton, East Sussex, England in 1. He stayed for several months at a house that the Tagore family owned near Brighton and Hove, in Medina Villas in 1. Suren and Indira Devi, the children of Tagores brother Satyendranathwere sent together with their mother, Tagores sister in law, to live with him. He briefly read law at University College London, but again left school, opting instead for independent study of Shakespeares plays. Religio Medici, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra. Lively English, Irish, and Scottish folk tunes impressed Tagore, whose own tradition of Nidhubabu authored kirtans and tappas and Brahmo hymnody was subdued. In 1. 88. 0 he returned to Bengal degree less, resolving to reconcile European novelty with Brahmo traditions, taking the best from each.