Gitanjali is one of the best-known works by Rabindranath Tagore for which he received the prestigious prize in literature in 1913. He was only next to Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo who has been the maximal inspiration to millions in modern India. As an active literary figure, his career extended over 65 years and wrote probably the largest number of lyrics ever attempted by any poet. There were no parallels for Tagore in the history of Indian English literature as a recognised dramatist of the time. He was one of the first writers who gained for modern India a place in the literary world. Even in the India of those days which was enslaved not only in the administration but also intellectually, Rabindranath Tagore did his best to establish himself as a person of cultural integrity and a herald of the Indian literary revival.
Home-taught mostly, he rejected many things which are considered established otherwise. Also considered as a father figure in Bengali writing, he was a versatile literary personality with many credentials under his belt – a critic, a poet, a lyricist, a composer, a novelist, a visionary and also a revolutionary within his own rights.īorn in 1861, May 6, Tagore almost received ‘nothing’ in the name of formal education from the ‘teachers’ as he was educated by his own whims. Rabindranath Tagore is the only literary figure from India who has won the prestigious Nobel Prize for literature for us – in 1913.
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