Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Thakur, also known by his pseudonym Bhanusimha was a Bengali polymath of the Bengal Renaissance period. In 1913, Tagore became the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist and non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A significant moulder of culture within the Indian subcontinent, he has written and composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Kolkata
- Educated at
- University College LondonSt. Xavier's Collegiate School
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Trending topics shown first"You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long."
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
"Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky."
"When I stand before thee at the day's end thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing."
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1861
Born
Birth1941
Died
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