Rabindranath Tagore : The
Nobel Laureate
Greatest writer in modern Indian literature, Bengali poet, novelist,
educator, and an early advocate of Independence for India is the
introduction to Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore was born in
Calcutta into a wealthy and prominent Brahman family.
Tagore received his early education first from tutors and then at a variety
of schools. Among them were Bengal Academy where he studied history and
culture. At University College, London, he studied law but left after a
year.
He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Two years later he was
awarded the knighthood, but he surrendered it in 1919 as a protest against
the Massacre of Amritsar, where British troops killed some 400 Indian
demonstrators. Tagore's influence over Gandhi and the founders of modern
India was enormous, but his reputation in the West as a mystic has perhaps
mislead his Western readers to ignore his role as a reformer and critic of
colonialism.
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Tagore
wrote his most important works in Bengali, but he often translated his
poems into English. At the age of 70 Tagore took up painting. He was
also a composer, settings hundreds of poems to music. Many of his poems
are actually songs, and inseparable from their music. Tagore's 'Our
Golden Bengal' became the national anthem of Bangladesh
