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Rabindranathnathtagore was the greatest writer in modern indian literature.he was a great poet,novelist and well known educationist
he was born on may7,1861.he was the youngest of fourteen children of his father,debendranath and mother sarda devi.he was not much loved in his family as all the elder brothers and their families lived together. he was a healthy and fair baby,but not as fair as some of his elder brothers and sisters.rabindranath eldest sister,saudamini,used to say ,''my rabi maybe dark and not so fair,buthe will outshineall the others."" his first book ,a collection of poems,was published when he was 17.in1912,he again went to england. on the way,he began to translate his latest selection of poems,gitanjali into english he always wrote in his mother tongue,bengali. in1913,he received the noble prize for literature.

**Rabindra Nath Tagorea Citizen Of His Country And Of The Universe** Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর, Robindronath Ţhakur)α[›]β[›] (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941),γ[›] sobriquet Gurudev,δ[›] was a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse",[1] he was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.[2] 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.[3] A Pirali Brahmin[4][5][6][7] from Kolkata, Tagore was already writing poems at age eight.[8] At age sixteen, he published his first substantial poetry under the pseudonym Bhanushingho ("Sun Lion")[9][10] 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-Bharati 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 (The Home and the World) 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 Shonar Bangla, the Bangladeshi national anthem. JOIN NOW FOR