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![]() The Literary Journey Tagore was the first Indian to bring an element of psychological realism to his novels. Among his early major prose works are CHOCHER BALI (1903, Eyesore) and NASHTANIR (1901, The Broken Nest), published first serially. Between 1891 and 1895 he published forty-four short stories in Bengali periodical, most of them in the monthly journal Sadhana |
![]() In 1901 Tagore founded a school
outside Calcutta, Visva-Bharati, which was dedicated to emerging Western
and Indian philosophy and education. It become a university in 1921. He
produced poems, novels, stories, a history of India, textbooks, and
treatises on pedagogy. Much of Tagore's ideology come from the teaching
of the Upahishads and from his own beliefs that God can be found through
personal purity and service to others. |
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 BangladeshFeather in the Cap » PRABHAT SANGEET, 1883 - Morning Songs » BAU-THAKURANIR HAT, 1883 » RAJASHI » GITANJALI, 1912 » CHOCHER BALI, 1903 - Eyesore » KABIKAHINI, 1878 - A Poet's Tale
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