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Rabindranath Tagore

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

REAL NAME

Rabindranath Tagore

NICK NAMES

Gurudev

BIRTHDAY

May 7, 1861

BORN ON DAY

Tuesday

BIRTHPLACE

Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Kolkata, India

DIED AT AGE

80 Years 3 Months 0 Days

DEATHDATE

August 7, 1941

DEATHPLACE

Santiniketan, West Bengal, India

CAUSE OF DEATH

Kidney infection

NATIONALITY

Indian

PROFESSION

Writers (Poet)

ZODIAC

TAURUS

ALSO NOTED FOR

Painter

FEATURES

Black eye and White hair

Physical Stats

CHEST

N/A

BICEPS

N/A

WAIST

N/A

HEIGHT

5'9''(feet & inches)

1.7526 meters

175.26 cm

WEIGHT

N/A

Rabindranath Tagore Family Members

Parents

MOTHER

Sarada Devi

FATHER

Debendranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore Marriage, Affairs and Children

SPOUSE

Mrinalini Devi (1883-1902)

Child(ren) of Rabindranath Tagore and Mrinalini Devi

Renuka (Daughter)

Meera (Daughter)

Rabindranath Tagore daughter Madhurilata

Madhurilata (Daughter)

Rathindranath (Son)

Shamindranath

Fame & Address

DEBUT

The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings (1912)

FAMOUS FROM/AS

Nobel Prize Literature, Gitanjali, (1913)

ADDRESS

India

Education, Net Worth & More

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About Rabindranath Tagore

Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore who has given national anthem to India. He was a poet, prose writer, painter and also played a vital role in the independence fight of India.

Career of Rabindranath Tagore

He started writing poems at the age of eight. He was sixteen when he released his first substantial poems Bhnusiha. His first collection of short stories was published in 1877 under his name. He played a vital role in the fight for independence through his poetry, paintings, hundreds of texts and many more. Some of his best-known works are Gitanjali, Gora, and Ghare-Baire.

Some Lesser Known Facts About Rabindranath Tagore

Rabinder Nath Tagore gave our national anthem and his Bengali song 'Amar Sonar Bangla' is the national anthem of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka's national anthem is also inspired by Ravinder Nath Tagore.
Rabindranath's noble prize was stolen in 2004 from safety vault of University. As a replacement Swedish Academy offered two replicas of his Nobel Prize.
In spite of some disagreements and issues yet Mahatma Gandhi and Ravindernath were good friends. It is known to only a few that it was he who honor the title "Mahatma" to Gandhiji.
He introduced Indian culture to western culture while traveling across five continents and to more than 30 countries. At the time India was considered as a country of snake-charmers and superstitions and culturally backward and it was he who changed the thinking of the world and highlight the richness of the country.
Rabindranath was first non-European, who was honored The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
He started writing poetry when he was just eight years old.
Did Rabindranath Tagore takes alcohol? NA.
Was Rabindranath Tagore in the habit of Smoking? NA.
He was a recipient of Knighthood by the British Crown in 1915 but he surrendered the knighthood having devastated with the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in 1919.
He founded Vishwa Bharati University in 1939 with the money he received for Nobel Prize.
Not only he was a good poet but also a good lyricist, novelist, playwright, and painter.
We all know that he had received a noble prize but a fact we don't know is that he had never received the prize directly but received by a British Ambassador on his behalf and afterward it was delivered to him at Kolkata.
He met Einstein four times in the period of 1930-1931. There are many common things in them which are that they both were Nobel prize winner, they loved music and many more.
After Vivekanand, he addressed two times the World-Parliament of Religions in the year 1929 an in 1937.
He was raised mostly by the servants as his mother died when he was a small kid.
His father wanted him to become a barrister that's why he was enrolled at a public school in Brighton, East Sussex, England in 1878. But he studied there for a brief period and decided to do the independent study of Shakespeare's plays Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra.