Rabindranath Tagore birth anniversary: Lesser-known facts about the Bard of Bengal
Tagore is one of the greatest revolutionaries India has produced. His contribution to Bengali and English literature is unmatched. File photo
Updated: May 7, 2021, 07:16 AM IST
May 7 (Friday) is the 160th birth anniversary of poet, philosopher, patriot, and a social thinker Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 in the Jorasanko Thakurbari in Kolkata to Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi. His birth anniversary falls on the 25th day of the Bengali month of Boishakh and is popularly called Pachishe Boishakh . On this day numerous cultural programmes & events such as poetries, dances and dramas completion are held in various schools, colleges and universities.
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His birth anniversary falls on the 25th day of the Bengali month of Boishakh and is popularly called Pachishe Boishakh .
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Updated: May 7, 2021, 06:56 AM IST
May 7 is the birth anniversary of India’s first Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. A poet, philosopher, patriot, and a social thinker put in one, Tagore is one of the greatest revolutionaries India has produced. His contribution to Bengali and English literature is unmatchable and he is known as the Bard of Bengal.
His birth anniversary falls on the 25th day of the Bengali month of Boishakh and is popularly called Pachishe Boishakh . On this day numerous cultural programmes and events such as poetries, dances and dramas completion are held in various schools, colleges and universities.
Rabindranath Tagore s birth anniversary: Remembering Tagore and celebrating his works
Today is Rabindranath Tagore s birth anniversary -
Pachishe Boishakh - as it is known in Bengali. Tagore - the poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher and musician - is part of the everyday life of an average Bengali. He is one of those great masters of literature whose works hardly left any human emotion untouched. In the introduction to Gitanjali , for which Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in 1913, WB Yeats wrote, We write long books where no page perhaps has any quality to make writing a pleasure, being confident in some general design, just as we fight and make money and fill our heads with politics - all dull things in the doing - while Mr Tagore, like the Indian civilization itself, has been content to discover the soul and surrender himself to its spontaneity.