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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore, was a British Indian poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and one of the foremost figures of the Bengal Renaissance. In 1913, Tagore became the first Indian and non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A significant moulder of culture within Bengal and the Indian subcontinent, he wrote and composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.
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s prose, his short stories are perhaps the most highly regarded; he is indeed credited with originating the Bengali-language version of the genre. His works are frequently noted for their rhythmic, optimistic, and lyrical nature. Such stories mostly borrow from the lives of common people. Tagore
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“s prose, his short stories are perhaps the most highly regarded; he is indeed credited with originating the Bengali-language version of the genre. His works are frequently noted for their rhythmic, optimistic, and lyrical nature. Such stories mostly borrow from the lives of common people. Tagore”
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MILENIO: Ofrenda de canciones: tres poemas de Rabindranath Tagore
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MILENIO: Noticias de Rabindranath Tagore en Milenio
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Newsonair: 165th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore Observed with Cultural Fervour in Tripura
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The Times of India: Quote of the day by Rabindranath Tagore: "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we…" - a lesson on preparation, patience and being ready when opportunity arrives
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Newsonair: Bangladesh observes 165th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore with nationwide tributes | Akashvani News
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The Daily Star: Manikganj hosts cultural programme commemorating Rabindranath Tagore
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reactormag.com: Sheherazade's Revenge: Rabindranath Tagore's "The Hungry Stones"
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Mshale: Stories By Rabindranath Tagore | Konkal | He Never Believed In Ghosts… Until Room No. 21 Paola Caruso (tA50WcWTYG)
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dailyasianage.com: Rabindranath Tagore’s Outlook on Birth and Death
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Turkmenportal.com: A cultural event was held in Ashgabat to commemorate the 165th anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore
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bssnews.net: Death anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore observed in Manikganj
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Social News XYZ: Paschim Medinipur: Girl pays floral tribute to Rabindranath Tagore #Gallery
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TRIPURA STAR NEWS: Rabindranath Tagore Will Remain Relevant As Long As Humanity Is Cherished In The World : Higher Education Minister Kishor Barman.
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Telegraph India: Rabindranath Tagore to Satyajit Ray, a trail of autographs displayed at Nehru Children’s Museum
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daily-sun.com: Iti Rabindranath celebrates Tagore’s timeless legacy - daily-sun.com
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Telugu Post rated the claim “Extremists tore down a statue of Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh during the recent violence” False.
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FACTLY rated the claim “Visuals showing the vandalized statue of Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh amid the ongoing 2024 unrest in the country” MISLEADING.
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Visuals show Rabindranath Tagore statues being vandalised amid the ongoing violence in Bangladesh.” Misleading.
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Telugu Post rated the claim “PM Narendra Modi received a portrait of Rabindranath Tagore upside down” False.
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The Quint rated the claim “PM Narendra Modi holds Rabindranath Tagore's portrait upside down.” False.
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News Mobile rated the claim “PM Modi disrespected and accepted an upside-down portrait of Rabindra Nath Tagore from a Bharatiya Janata Party member in Barrackpore, West Bengal.” Misleading.
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The Quint rated the claim “Rabindranath Tagore wrote the national anthem to honour King George V, who in turn awarded him the Nobel Prize for literature.” False.
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FACTLY rated the claim “Rabindranath Tagore wrote the ‘Jana Gana Mana’ song in praise of King George V, who was the Chairman of the Nobel Prize selection committee when Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913” FALSE.
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Released album “Shastry Vs Shastry”.
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Amit Shah sat on Rabindranath Tagore's chair; JP Nadda said that Rabindranath Tagore was born in Shantiniketan” False.
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Alt News rated the claim “Amit Shah sat on Tagore's chair, JP Nadda said Tagore was born in Shantiniketan” False.
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had composed the original national anthem which was later adapted and changed by Rabindranath Tagore later” FALSE.
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A baul singer named Pradip Bauri, accused of sheltering the thieves, was arrested
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Harvard University Press collaborated with Visva-Bharati University to publish The Essential Tagore, the largest anthology of Tagore's works available in English; it was edited by Fakrul Alam and Radha Chakravarthy and m
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Released album “Paran Khule”.
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Released album “Yatra 2”.
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Released album “Tumi Amari”.
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Released album “Rabindra Arghya - Vol 1”.
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Released album “Sedin Dujane”.
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Released album “Tagore 4 2moro”.
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Released album “Sakal Khelay Korse Khela Ei Ami”.
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Released album “Nutan Aloay”.
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Released album “Anandadhara Abismraniyo Rabindrasangeet”.
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Released album “Birohini”.
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Released album “Memorable Tagore Songs”.
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Released album “Nirabo Nirjane”.
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Released album “Tomar Binai Gaan Chili”.
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Amar Shonar Bangla became the national anthem of Bangladesh
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And Ghare Baire in 1984, and by several others filmmakers such as Satu Sen for Chokher Bali already in 1938, when Tagore was still alive
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(a gift from the Indian government, the work of Rasithan Kashar, replaced by a newly gifted statue in 2005) and the lakeside promenade still bears his name since 1957
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Died 1941-08-07.
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“Inna wersja: Jeśli zamknięcie drogę wszystkim pomyłkom, wykluczycie prawdę.”
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“as crianças nos trazem, ao nascer, a mensagem de que Deus não perdeu ainda a esperança nos homens.”
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“India chose her places of pilgrimages on the top of hills and mountains, by the side of the holy rivers, in the heart of forests and by the shores of the ocean, which along with the sky, is our nearest visible symbol of the vast, the boundless, the infinite and the sublime.”
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“Miłość to niekończąca się tajemnica, bo nie ma żadnej rozsądnej przyczyny, która mogłaby ją wytłumaczyć.”
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“Pieśń moja pozbawiła ją ozdób.Brak u niej dumy ze stroju czy upiększeń.Ozdoby popsułyby tylko nasz związek;Znalazły by się między tobą i mną, ich brzęczenie zagłuszyłoby twoje szepty.Moja próżność poety umiera ze wstydu na twój widok.O mistrzu poeto, siadam u twych stóp.Pozwól mi jedynie uczynić swe życie prostym i szczerym,Jak flet trzcinowy napełniony muzyką dla ciebie.”
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Tagore's paintings were removed from Berlin's baroque Crown Prince Palace by the Nazi regime and five were included in the inventory of "degenerate art" compiled by the Nazis in 1941–1942
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While on a visit to Iran, that "each country of Asia will solve its own historical problems according to its strength, nature and needs, but the lamp they will each carry on their path to progress will converge to illumi
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Tagore travelled for four months to Southeast Asia, stopping in British Malaya, Siam and the Dutch East Indies
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Tagore and agricultural economist Leonard Elmhirst set up the "Institute for Rural Reconstruction", later renamed Shriniketan or "Abode of Welfare", in Surul, a village near the ashram
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“The disproportionate severity of the punishments inflicted upon the unfortunate people and the methods of carrying them out, we are convinced, are without parallel in the history of civilised governments...The time has come when badges of honour make our shame glaring in their incongruous context of humiliation, and I for my part wish to stand, shorn of all special distinctions, by the side of my countrymen.”
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Was invited by the president and chairman of Anjuman-e-Islamia, Syed Abdul Majid to visit Sylhet for the first time
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Who analyzed Tagore's views on philosophy, religion, art and poetry, using Tagore's works available in English up to that time
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Tagore conceived a new type of university: he sought to "make Santiniketan the connecting thread between India and the world [and] a world center for the study of humanity somewhere beyond the limits of nation and geogra
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He escaped assassination—and only narrowly—by Indian expatriates during his stay in a San Francisco hotel in late 1916; the plot failed when his would-be assassins fell into an argument.
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (1915).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature for Song Offerings (1913).
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Tagore became the first Indian and non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
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And to mark the centenary of Tagore's birth
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Tagore translated his 1910 work Gitanjali into English
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Took a sheaf of his translated works to England, where they gained attention from missionary and Gandhi protégé Charles F
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At a Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress, and was adopted in 1950 by the Constituent Assembly of the Republic of India as its national anthem
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Tagore moved to Santiniketan to found an ashram with a marble-floored prayer hall—The Mandir—an experimental school, groves of trees, gardens, a library
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Calcutta.
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Studied at University College London.
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Studied at St. Xavier's Collegiate School.
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For instance, when he was nearing forty and already a celebrated writer, he wrote to Jagadish Chandra Bose, "You will be surprised to hear that I am sitting with a sketchbook drawing
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Tagore began managing his vast ancestral estates in Shelaidaha (today a region of Bangladesh); he was joined there by his wife and children in 1898
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“the play of feeling and not of action”
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Wrote Visarjan (an adaptation of his novella Rajarshi), which has been regarded as his finest drama
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Soon after he married, left him profoundly distraught for years
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Married 10-year-old Mrinalini Devi, born Bhabatarini, 1873–1902 (this was a common practice at the time)
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Returned to Bengal degree-less, resolving to reconcile European novelty with Brahmo traditions, taking the best from each
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His nephew and niece—Suren and Indira Devi, the children of Tagore's brother Satyendranath—were sent together with their mother, Tagore's sister-in-law, to live with him
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Was greatly influenced by melodious gurbani and Nanak bani being sung at Golden Temple, for which both father and son were regular visitors
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Born 1861-05-07.
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