Rabindranath tagore life and works

Some of his other well-known literary works include Gora, Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World), and Chokher Bali. His most famous work, Gitanjali (Song Offerings), won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, making him the first non-European to receive this honor.

The drama was based on the legendary dacoit Valmiki, who later reforms and pens down one of the two Indian epics – Ramayana.

Tagore the Artist

Rabindranath Tagore took up drawing and painting when he was around sixty years old. In 1927, he embarked on a Southeast Asian tour and inspired many with his wisdom and literary works.

At a very young age, Rabindranath Tagore was part of the Bengal renaissance, which his family took active participation in. As many as 39 stories of his were made into films by various directors and a few other stories were made into TV series. When he was 20 years old, he not only did pen the drama ‘Valmiki Pratibha’, but also played the titular character.

His educational philosophy emphasized creativity, nature, and holistic learning, diverging from rigid colonial education. His paintings were displayed at exhibitions organized throughout Europe. He was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi. He began composing poems at the age of eight and eventually established a broad and varied literary canon.

He also started composing art works at a tender age and by the age of sixteen he had started publishing poems under the pseudonym Bhanusimha. One of the reasons for this could be his unique style of narrating a story, which is still difficult to comprehend by contemporary readers, let alone the readers of his time. Though he started writing at a very young age, his desire to produce more number of literary works only enhanced post the death of his wife and children.

He was later joined by some of his relatives like his nephew, niece and sister-in-law in order to support him during his stay in England. By infusing his own style of writing, he made people to take note of not only his works but also the works of ancient Indian poets. His novel ‘Shesher Kobita’ narrated its story through poems and rhythmic passages of the main protagonist.

But beyond facts, his themes—spiritual humanism, nationalism vs. He was also a cultural reformer who modified Bengali art by rebuffing the strictures that confined it within the sphere of classical Indian forms.