Short biography of Rabindranath tagore

                          

In the year 1861,was born a child  in the Tagore family of Jorasanko in Calcutta.He was Rabindranath. His  father  Devendranath Tagore was a rich man and an aristocrat and his mother was Sarada Devi. He belonged to a very prosperous and cultured zamindar family which played a very important role  in shaping his  personality in later life. He was the eighth son and fourteenth child of his parents. Tagore was not sent to any school. He was educated at home by a tutor. When he was at seventeen, he was sent to England for formal schooling but he was not happy, getting educated within the four walls. He was a curious and creative child. His poetic intellect was perceptible from his early boyhood. He was happy to read plays of Kalidas and Shakespeare.He had a special interest in Bengali, which was his mother tongue.Later he became a student of prof. Henry Morley whose lectures  influenced Rabindranath to take interest in English literature.

His first opera was |Bhanu Singher Padabali  which created a great sensations and brought him to the limelight.Then he started writing poetr y in Bengali.After that his literary career saw numerous ventures into the worlds of novels,dramas,short stories and songs.

He married Mrinalini Devi who inspired  him to a great extent  to pursue his work.”Gitanjali” is a well known collection of his poems.Gitanjali contains  his various noble thoughts  common to the vast humanity,pessimism,love,satisfaction,dignity  of labour etc.For this book “Gitanjali”,Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Noble prize in 1931.Tagore was the first Indian  to get a Noble prize .He was a great supporter of  the Indian Nationalist Movement.

He was himself a good singer of and he composed a new form of music called “Rabindra Sangeet”.He wrote a number of plays .Some of them are Valmiki Pratibha,Post Office,Naure’s Revenge etc.

He was  a great reformer of education.Santiniketan and Sriniketan stand today as its evidence.He was a great philosopher and a teacher.He was called “Gurudev”by all.In 1941 ,the world lost one of its greatest poet,social thinker.But even today Tagore appears in our everydaylife at every step.