Rabindranath Tagore
abindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youthful son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious side in nineteenth-century Bengal and which tried a reanimation of the ultimate monistic base of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was transferred to England for formal training, he didn't finish his studies there. In his mature times, in addition to his numerous-sided erudite conditioning, he managed the family estates, a design which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. Rabindranath Tagore He also started an experimental academy at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. From time to time he shared in the Indian nationalist movement, however in his ownnon-sentimental and visionary way; and Gandhi, the political father of ultramodern India, was his devoted friend. Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a many times he abnegated the honour as a kick against British programs in India.
Tagore had early
success as a pen in his native Bengal. With his restatements of some of his
runes he came fleetly known in the West. In fact his fame attained a luminous
height, taking him across mainlands on lecture tenures and tenures of
fellowship. Rabindranath Tagore For the world he came the voice of India’s spiritual heritage; and
for India, especially for Bengal, he came a great living institution.
Although Tagore wrote successfully in all erudite stripes, he was first of all a minstrel. Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi (1890) (The Ideal One), Sonar Tari (1894) (The Golden Boat), Gitanjali (1910) (Song Offerings), Gitimalya (1914) ( Wreath of Songs), and Balaka (1916) (The Flight of Cranes). The English definitions of his poetry, which include The Gardener (1913), Fruit- Gathering (1916), and The Expatriate (1921), don't generally correspond to particular volumes in the original Bengali; and in malignancy of its title, Gitanjali Song Immolations (1912), the most accredited of them, contains runes from other workshop besides its namesake. Rabindranath Tagore Tagore’s major plays are Raja (1910) (The King of the Dark Chamber), Dakghar (1912) (The Post Office), Achalayatan (1912) (The Immovable), Muktadhara (1922) (The Waterfall), and Raktakaravi (1926) (Red Oleanders). He's the author of several volumes of short stories and a number of novels, among them Gora (1910), Ghare-Baire (1916) (The Home and the World), and Yogayog (1929) (Crosscurrents). Besides these, he wrote musical dramatizations, cotillion dramatizations, essays of all types, trip journals, and two autobiographies, one in his middle times and the other shortly before his death in 1941. Tagore also left multitudinous delineations and oils, and songs for which he wrote the music himself.
The son of the religious reformer Debendranath Tagore, he beforehand began to write verses, and, after deficient studies in England in the late 1870s, he returned to India. Rabindranath Tagore There he published several books of poetry in the 1880s and completed Manasi (1890), a collection that marks the growing of his genius. It contains some of his best- known runes, including numerous in verse forms new to Bengali, as well as some social and political lampoon that was critical of his fellow Bengalis.