Togore: My Inspiration
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (/rəˈbɪndrənɑːt tæˈɡɔːr/ (About this soundlisten); 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941),[a] sobriquet Gurudev,[b] was a Bengali polymath from the Indian subcontinent, a poet, musician and artist.[3][4] He 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",[5] he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.[6] Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal.[7] He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal".[8] A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old.[9] At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion...