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    Rabindranath Tagore was a prolific Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first non-European laureate, for his collection Gitanjali. Tagore introduced new forms of prose and poetry to Bengali literature that freed it from classical Sanskrit models. He was influential in introducing Indian culture to the West and vice versa. Tagore wrote extensively in both Bengali and English, including novels, short stories, songs, dance-dramas and essays on topics both political and personal.

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    Rabindranath Tagore was a prolific Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first non-European laureate, for his collection Gitanjali. Tagore introduced new forms of prose and poetry to Bengali literature that freed it from classical Sanskrit models. He was influential in introducing Indian culture to the West and vice versa. Tagore wrote extensively in both Bengali and English, including novels, short stories, songs, dance-dramas and essays on topics both political and personal.

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    Rabindranath Tagore was a prolific Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first non-European laureate, for his collection Gitanjali. Tagore introduced new forms of prose and poetry to Bengali literature that freed it from classical Sanskrit models. He was influential in introducing Indian culture to the West and vice versa. Tagore wrote extensively in both Bengali and English, including novels, short stories, songs, dance-dramas and essays on topics both political and personal.

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    BIOGRAPHY OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE

    Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali pronunciation: [rbindrnt tr] ), also written Rabndrantha Thkura (7 May
    1861 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev,was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music in
    the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful
    verse",

    he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry
    was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown
    outside Bengal.Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali
    literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in
    introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding
    creative artist of the modern Indian subcontinent, being highly commemorated in India and Bangladesh, as well
    as in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan.
    A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old.
    At age sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhnusiha ("Sun Lion"), which
    were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics. He graduated to his first short stories and dramas
    and the aegis of his birth nameby 1877. As a humanist, universalist internationalist, and strident nationalist he
    denounced the Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he
    advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand
    songs; his legacy endures also in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University.
    Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels,
    stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. 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 acclaimedor pannedfor their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural
    contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and
    Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla. The original song of Sri Lankas National Anthem was also written and tuned
    by Tagore.
    List of works
    Bengali
    Poetry
    *

    Bhnusiha hkurer
    Paval
    (Songs of Bhnusiha
    hkur)
    1884
    *
    Manasi (The Ideal One) 1890
    * Sonar Tari (The Golden Boat) 1894
    * Gitanjali (Song Offerings) 1910
    * Gitimalya (Wreath of Songs) 1914
    * Balaka (The Flight of Cranes) 1916
    Dramas

    * Valmiki-Pratibha (The Genius of Valmiki) 1881
    * Visarjan (The Sacrifice) 1890
    * Raja
    (The King of the Dark
    Chamber)
    1910
    * Dak Ghar (The Post Office) 1912
    * Achalayatan (The Immovable) 1912
    * Muktadhara (The Waterfall) 1922
    *
    Raktakaravi (Red Oleanders) 1926
    Fiction

    * Nastanirh (The Broken Nest) 1901
    * Gora (Fair-Faced) 1910
    * Ghare Baire (The Home and the World) 1916
    *
    Yogayog (Crosscurrents) 1929
    Memoirs

    * Jivansmriti (My Reminiscences) 1912
    * Chhelebela (My Boyhood Days) 1940

    English
    * Thought Relics 1921
    [original 1]

    Translated

    English
    * Chitra 1914
    [text 1]

    * Creative Unity 1922
    [text 2]

    * The Crescent Moon 1913
    [text 3]

    * The Cycle of Spring 1919
    [text 4]

    * Fireflies 1928
    * Fruit-Gathering 1916
    [text 5]

    * The Fugitive 1921
    [text 6]

    * The Gardener 1913
    [text 7]


    * Gitanjali: Song Offerings
    1912
    [text 8]

    * Glimpses of Bengal 1991
    [text 9]

    * The Home and the World 1985
    [text 10]

    * The Hungry Stones 1916
    [text 11]

    * I Won't Let you Go: Selected Poems 1991
    * The King of the Dark Chamber 1914
    [text 12]

    * Letters from an Expatriate in Europe 2012
    * The Lover of God 2003
    * Mashi 1918
    [text 13]

    * My Boyhood Days 1943
    * My Reminiscences 1991
    [text 14]

    * Nationalism 1991
    * The Post Office 1914
    [text 15]

    * Sadhana: The Realisation of Life 1913
    [text 16]

    * Selected Letters 1997
    * Selected Poems 1994
    * Selected Short Stories 1991
    * Songs of Kabir 1915
    [text 17]

    * The Spirit of Japan 1916
    [text 18]

    * Stories from Tagore 1918
    [text 19]

    * Stray Birds 1916
    [text 20]

    * Vocation 1913
    [187]

    Adaptations of novels and short stories in cinema
    Hindi
    Sacrifice 1927 (Balidaan) Nanand Bhojai and Naval Gandhi
    Milan 1947 (Nauka Dubi) Nitin Bose
    Kabuliwala 1961 (Kabuliwala) Bimal Roy
    Uphaar 1971 (Samapti) Sudhendu Roy
    Lekin... 1991 (Kshudhit Pashaan) Gulzar
    Char Adhyay 1997 (Char Adhyay) Kumar Shahani
    Kashmakash 2011 (Nauka Dubi) Rituparno Ghosh
    "Bhikharin"
    Bengali
    Natir Puja 1932 The only film directed by Rabindranath Tagore
    Naukadubi 1947 (Noukadubi) Nitin Bose
    Kabuliwala 1957 (Kabuliwala) Tapan Sinha
    Kshudhita Pashaan 1960 (Kshudhita Pashan) Tapan Sinha
    Teen Kanya 1961 (Teen Kanya) Satyajit Ray
    Charulata - 1964 (Nastanirh) Satyajit Ray
    Ghare Baire 1985 (Ghare Baire) Satyajit Ray
    Chokher Bali 2003 (Chokher Bali) Rituparno Ghosh
    Shasti 2004 (Shasti) Chashi Nazrul Islam
    Shuva 2006 (Shuvashini) Chashi Nazrul Islam
    Chaturanga 2008 (Chaturanga) Suman Mukhopadhyay
    Elar Char Adhyay 2012 (Char Adhyay) Bappaditya Bandyopadhyay

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