When was rabindranath tagore born

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy” - Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore, born on 7th May 1861, was a well-known Indian poet, philosopher, composer, painter and writer. He was born in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He is said to re-shape the Bengali literature, music and as well as the Indian art with Contextual Modernism during the early 19th and the 20th centuries. In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European as well as the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. His poetic songs were viewed by a majority of the audience as spiritual and mercurial. However, Tagore’s “elegant prose and magical poetry” had remained unknown outside Bengal. Rabindranath Tagore is also sometimes called the “Bard of Bengal”. History of Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali brahmin from Calcutta started writing poetry as an eight year old. And at the age of 16, his first substantial poems were released under the pseudonym “Bhanusingha” meaning 'Sun Lion'. By 1977, Tagore had graduated to his first short stories and dramas which were published under his real name. Also, Tagore had advanced a vast canon that had sketches, doodles, paintings, some 2000 songs and a hundred of texts. Also, he founded an institution called Visva-Bharati University. He had modernised Bengali art by resisting linguistic structure and spurning classic forms. His writings like novels, essays, songs, ...