10 Lines on ‘Rabindranath Tagore’
- Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861.
- He was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore.
- He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there.
- He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education.
- Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a few years, he resigned the honour as a protest against British policies in India.
- Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal.
- With his translations of some of his poems, he became rapidly known in the West.
- For the world he became the voice of India’s spiritual heritage; and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a great living institution.
- He wrote musical dramas, dance dramas, essays of all types, travel diaries, and two autobiographies, one in his middle years and the other shortly before his death in 1941.
- Tagore also left numerous drawings and paintings, and songs for which he wrote the music himself.
