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    Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 in Calcutta, India to a wealthy Bengali family. He was mostly homeschooled due to the early death of his mother. As a young man, he briefly studied law in London but returned to Bengal without a degree. Tagore went on to become one of the most prolific and influential writers and philosophers in modern Indian history, known especially for his poems, songs, short stories, and novels. He wrote over 2,000 songs and was influential in shaping Bengali literature and music. Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, the first Asian to receive the award.

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    Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 in Calcutta, India to a wealthy Bengali family. He was mostly homeschooled due to the early death of his mother. As a young man, he briefly studied law in London but returned to Bengal without a degree. Tagore went on to become one of the most prolific and influential writers and philosophers in modern Indian history, known especially for his poems, songs, short stories, and novels. He wrote over 2,000 songs and was influential in shaping Bengali literature and music. Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, the first Asian to receive the award.

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    Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 in Calcutta, India to a wealthy Bengali family. He was mostly homeschooled due to the early death of his mother. As a young man, he briefly studied law in London but returned to Bengal without a degree. Tagore went on to become one of the most prolific and influential writers and philosophers in modern Indian history, known especially for his poems, songs, short stories, and novels. He wrote over 2,000 songs and was influential in shaping Bengali literature and music. Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, the first Asian to receive the award.

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    he youngest of thirteen surviving children, Tagore was born in the Jorasanko

    mansion in Calcutta (nowKolkata) of parents Debendranath Tagore (1817–1905) and


    Sarada Devi (1830–1875).ε[›][11] Tagore familypatriarchs were the Brahmo founding
    fathers of the Adi Dharm faith. He was mostly raised by servants, as his mother had
    died in his early childhood; his father travelled extensively.[12] Tagore largely declined
    classroom schooling, preferring to roam the mansion or nearby
    idylls: Bolpur, Panihati, and others.[13][14]Upon his upanayan initiation at age eleven,
    Tagore left Calcutta on 14 February 1873 to tour India with his father for several
    months. They visited his father's Santiniketan estate and stopped in Amritsar before
    reaching the Himalayan hill station of Dalhousie. There, young "Rabi" read
    biographies and was home-educated in history, astronomy, modern science, and
    Sanskrit, and examined the poetry of
    Kālidāsa A prospective barrister, Tagore enrolled at a public school in Brighton, East
    Sussex, England in 1878. He read law at University College London, but left school to
    explore Shakespeare and more: Religio Medici, Coriolanus, and Antony and
    Cleopatra;[20] he returned degreeless to Bengal in 1880. On 9 December 1883 he
    married Mrinalini Devi (born Bhabatarini, 1873–1902); they had five children, two of
    whom died before reaching adulthood.[21] In 1890, Tagore began managing his
    family's vast estates in Shilaidaha, a region now in Bangladesh; he was joined by his
    wife and children in 1898.

    Twilight years (1932–1941)


    To the end, Tagore scrutinized orthodoxy. He upbraided Gandhi for declaring that a
    massive 15 January 1934 earthquake in Bihar—leaving thousands dead—was divine
    retribution brought on by the oppression of Dalits.[33] He mourned the endemic
    poverty of Calcutta and the accelerating socioeconomic decline of Bengal, which he
    detailed in an unrhymed hundred-line poem whose technique of searing double-
    vision would foreshadowSatyajit Ray's film Apur Sansar.
    Tagore's last four years were marked by chronic pain and two long periods of illness.
    These began when Tagore lost consciousness in late 1937; he remained comatose
    and near death for an extended period. This was followed three years later, in late
    1940, by a similar spell, from which he never recovered. The poetry Tagore wrote in
    these years is among his finest, and is distinctive for its preoccupation with death.[38]
    [39]
    After extended suffering, Tagore died on 7 August 1941 (22 Shravan 1348) in an
    upstairs room of the Jorasanko mansion in which he was raised;[40][41] his death
    anniversary is mourned across the Bengali-speaking world.[42]

    Works
    Though known mostly for his poetry, Tagore also wrote novels, essays, short stories,
    travelogues, dramas, and thousands of songs. Of Tagore's prose, his short stories are
    perhaps most highly regarded; indeed, he is credited with originating the Bengali-
    language version of the genre. His works are frequently noted for their rhythmic,
    optimistic, and lyrical nature. Such stories mostly borrow from deceptively simple
    subject matter: common people.

    Novels
    Tagore wrote eight novels and four novellas, among them Chaturanga, Shesher
    Kobita, Char Odhay, and Noukadubi.
    Though his novels remain among the least-appreciated of his works, they have been
    given renewed attention via film adaptations by Satyajit Ray and others: Chokher
    Bali and Ghare Baire are exemplary

    Music and art


    Tagore composed roughly 2,230 songs and was a prolific painter. His songs
    comprise rabindrasŋgit
    Bangladesh's national anthem Amar Shonar Bangla which became the national
    anthem of Bangladesh in the year 1971 (আমার োসানার বাঙলা) and India's national
    anthem Jana Gana Mana is written in the year 1911 (জন গণ মন), making Tagore unique
    in having scored two national anthems.
    At age sixty, Tagore took up drawing and painting; successful exhibitions of his many
    works—which made a debut appearance in Paris upon encouragement by artists he
    met in the south of France[71]—w

    Poetry
    sought connection with divinity through appeal to nature and the emotional interplay
    of human drama. Tagore used such techniques in his Bhānusiṃha poems (which
    chronicle the romance between Radhaand Krishna), which he repeatedly revised over
    the course of seventy years.[85][86]
    nternationally, Gitanjali (গীতাঞিল) is Tagore's best-known collection, winning him his
    Nobel Prize.[89] Song VII (গীতাঞিল 127) of Gitanjali:

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