Rabindranath Tagore was an icon of Indian culture. He was a poet ,philosopher, Musician,writer ,and educationist. Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian to became Nobel laureate.
Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7,1861 in a wealthy Brahmin family of Calcutta. He was the ninth son of Devendranath and sharada devi. His grandfather Dwarkanath Tagore was a rich landlord and a social reformer.
Tagore and his father left Calcutta in 1873 to tour India for several months. During this time, Tagore read biographies, studied history, astronomy, modern science, and Sanskrit, and examined the classical poetry of kalidasa.
In 1878 Tagore sailed to England with his elder brother satyendranath to study law. But he returned to India in 1880 and started his Career as poet and writer.
In1901, Rabindranath Tagore became the editor of the magazine Bangadarshan. He established Bolpur Brahmacharya Ashram at shantiniketan, a school based on the pattern of old Indian Ashram.
Rabindranath Tagore was awarded Noble prize for literature in 1913 for Gitanjali. In 1915 he was knighted by the British king George V. In 1919, but following the jallianwala Bagh massacre, Tagore renounced his knighthood. He was a supporter of Gandhiji but he stayed out of politics.
In 1921 Rabindranath Tagore was established vishwabharati university. He donated all his money from Nobel Prize and royalty money from his books to this university.
In 1940 Oxford university arranged a special ceremony in shantiniketan and awarded Rabindranath Tagore with decorate in literature. Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore passed away on August 7,1941 in his ancestral home at Calcutta.
