Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath was born in Jorasanko, Calcutta as the youngest of the thirteen surviving kids of Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi.

Tagore was a born genius. He was unhappy with his formal schooling and chose to be schooled at home. He opted to study history, art, mathematics, science, Bengali, Sanskrit, Upanishads and Romantic poetry from his home.

Tagore started writing poems when he was just eight years old and published his first major collection under the pen name Bhanushingho, when he was 16.

Worldwide recognition came to him with his English translations of Gitanjali, for which W. B. Yeats wrote the introduction. In 1913 he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in literature for his outstanding contribution to the field.  

His greatest works includes Gitanjali, Jana Gana Mana, Gora, Ghare-Baire, Rabindra Sangeet, Amar Shonar Bangla and so on. 

Rabindranath Tagore was knighted by the British Crown in 1915, but he renounced his knighthood after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919.

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