RABINDRONATH TAGORE

Rabindranath Tagore (Bengle: Robindronath Ţhakur 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941),sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengle poet, novelist,  painter and well play writter who reshaped bengle litareture and music. As author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse^, he was the first non-European to win the Nobel prize for litareture in 1913 His poetry in translation was viewed as spiritual, and this together with his mesmerizing persona gave him a prophet-like aura in the west but his "elegant prose and magical poetry" still remains largely unknown outside the confines of Bengal

A pirali brahmin from Calcutta, Tagore was already writing poems at age eight ^. At age sixteen, he published his first substantial poetry under the pseudonym Bhanushingho  and wrote his first short stories and dramas in 1877. Tagore denounced the british raj and supported independence. His efforts endure in his vast canon and in the institution he founded, visva varati university .
Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to political and personal topics. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire  are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and contemplation. Tagore was perhaps the only litterateur who penned anthems of two countries - jana gana mana the Indian national anthem and AMAR SONER BANGLA the Bangladeshi national anthem.