Our National Anthem Writer- RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Born: May 7, 1861

Died: August 7, 1941

 On 7th May, 2010, it was the 150th Birth Anniversary of third Father of the Nation(after Jawahar Lal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi, some even consider Ambedkar also as a father, but its one's personal opinion)

                                                                  

A Glimpse 

• He was the ninth son of Debendranath and Sarada Devi.

• Rabindranath Tagore was an icon of Indian culture. He was a poet, philosopher, musician, writer, and educationist. Rabindranath Tagore became the first Asian to became Nobel laureate when he won Nobel Prize for his collection of poems, Gitanjali, in 1913. 

• He was popularly called as Gurudev and his songs were popularly known as Rabindrasangeet. Two songs from his Rabindrasangit canon are now the national anthems of India and Bangladesh: the Jana Gana Mana and the Amar Shonar Bangla.

• In 1915 he was awarded knighthood by the British King George V. In 1919, following the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Tagore renounced his knighthood.

• 1n 1921, Rabindranath Tagore established Viswabharati University. He gave all his money from Nobel Prize and royalty money from his books to this University.

• Tagore was not only a creative genius, he was quite knowledgeable of Western culture, especially Western poetry and science too. Tagore had a good grasp of modern - post-Newtonian – physics and was well able to hold his own in a debate with Einstein in 1930 on the newly emerging principles of quantum mechanics and chaos. His meetings and tape recorded conversations with his contemporaries such Albert Einstein and H.G. Wells, epitomize his brilliance.,

• In 1940 Oxford University arranged a special ceremony in Santiniketan and awarded Rabindranath Tagore with Doctorate Of Literature. Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore passed away on August 7, 1941 in his ancestral home in Calcutta.

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Shared By- Vishal Suri