I bow to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore on his birth anniversary : tweets Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

May 07, 2015 :: I bow to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore on his birth anniversary : tweets Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the birth anniversary of Guru Rabindranath Tagore.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore, also written Rab?ndran?tha Th?kura (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism 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.

The youngest of thirteen surviving children, Tagore (nicknamed “Rabi”) was born in the Jorasanko mansion in Kolkata to parents Debendranath Tagore (1817–1905) and Sarada Devi (1830–1875). Dwarkanath Tagore was his paternal grandfather. Debendranath had formulated the Brahmoist philosophies espoused by his friend Ram Mohan Roy, and became focal in Brahmo society after Roy’s death.