Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath
Tagore was born on 7th May 1861, in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta,
India. He was the man who rejuvenated the Bengali music and literature
in late 19th and early 20th century and them their recognition into this
world. He was the first non-European to win Noble Prize for his work
in Literature. He is the person who gave national anthem of India and
Bangladesh. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and
Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are some of his best known works.
Childhood
Rabindranath
Tagore belongs to a Royal family of that era, the loyalist "Prince"
Dwarkanath Tagore, who employed European estate managers and visited
with Victoria and other royalty, was his paternal grandfather. He was
raised mostly by servants, as he lost his mother at very early age, and
his father mostly have official trips outside the city. In his childhood
days, Rabindranath avoided the classroom schooling, rather he liked to
roam the manor or nearby Bolpur and Panihati. And it is surprising that
he didn’t like English much during his childhood days.
Education
Tagore
enrolled at a public school in Brighton, East Sussex, England in 1878,
as his father wanted him to be a barrister. And later he completed his
study in law at University College London, but he left that school and
opted instead for independent study of Shakespeare, Religio Medici,
Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra. But in 1880 he returned to Bengal
with no degree.
Career
At
the age of only 8 years Tagore started poetry. And at the age of 16
years, he released his first substantial poems and after that this
process continues into uncountable poetry, music, stories writing. In
1890, Rabindranath Tagore began managing his vast ancestral estates in
Shelaidaha (a part of Bangladesh). Here he released his first known work
‘Manasi poems’. For Gitanjali (which he released in 1912) he was
honored with a Nobel Prize in November 1913. The period from 1932 to
1941 was considered as his most productive years, when he worked
successfully in many fields like - article writing, music, poetry,
painting, theatre, novels and stories.
At the End
During
the last years of his life, Rabindranath Tagore was actively involved
into Indian Nationalist movements. During these days he wrote "Chitto
Jetha Bhayshunyo" ("Where the Mind is Without Fear") and "Ekla Chalo Re"
("If They Answer Not to Thy Call, Walk Alone"), these two were
politically charged lines that gained mass appeal during the fight for
Independence. Rabindranath Tagore took his last breath on 7th August
1941.
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