Let’s Commemorate The Birth Anniversary Of Nobel Prize Winner Rabindranath Tagore

The world celebrates the 163rd birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore on May 7. Tagore is part of the everyday life of an average Bengali. The poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher, and musician penned more than 2,000 songs and several novels, dance dramas, and short stories.

The greatest works of Rabindranath Tagore are in the fields of politics and Bengali literature. In many artistic fields, his plays, novels, short stories, songs, and poems are still admired and studied. In 1913, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his contributions to world literature.

He was born in Kolkata on May 7, 1861. Tagore, also known as ‘Gurudev’ or the Bard of Bengal, was known for his deep curiosity and exploring spirit. In addition to creating over 3,000 paintings, he wrote over 2,230 songs.

While Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti is observed nationwide, different parts of West Bengal experience its magnificence more than others. He wrote the national anthems for Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and India.

Shantiniketan, also known as Viswa Bharti University, was established by him. He passed away at the age of 80 in Calcutta. He had a clogged binary bladder and significant uraemia. His famous quotes include:

*Allow your existence to gently twirl around Time like dew on a leaf’s tip.
*Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
*Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
*The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
*Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.