27 Top Interesting Facts about Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. He was a poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, essayists, social and cultural reformer, painter, academician, philosopher, educationist, music composer, humanist and so on.

1. Tagore was born, according to the Gregorian calendar, on May 7 in 1861 — but according to the Bengali calendar, it was the 25th of Baishakh.
2. Rabindranath Tagore is famous by many names — Gurudev, Kabiguru, Biswakabi and often referred to as “the Bard of Bengal”.
3. His nick name is Rabi.
4. Tagore was born the youngest of fourteen children, in the Jorasanko Thakurbari, Calcutta, to parents Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi.
5. Debendranath was one of the founders of the Brahmo Samaj.
6. His sister Swarnakumari Devi was a well-renowned poet and novelist. She was among the first women in Bengal to gain importance in these fields as well as for her music and social work.
7. Rabindranath wrote his first poem at the age of six. He published his first substantial poetry-under the pseudonym Bhanushingho (Sun Lion), in 1877 and wrote his first short stories and dramas at age sixteen. Read More

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