Rabindranath Tagore

(1861-1941)

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath

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Rabindranath Thakur (anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali. In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; where his elegant prose and magical poetry were widely popular in the Indian subcontinent. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by the sobriquets Gurudeb, Kobiguru, and Biswokobi.

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Born	6 May 1861 Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Kolkata, India
Died	7 August 1941 (aged 80) Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Zodiac	Taurus
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