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10 May 2022 Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti

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Prime Minister paid tributes to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore on his birth anniversary on May 9, 2022.
According to the Bengali calendar, Tagore Jayanti is celebrated on the 25th day of the month of Boishakh.

He was born on May 7, 1861 in Calcutta.
He is also known as ‘Gurudev’, ‘Kabiguru’ and ‘Biswakabi’.
WB Yeats was called by Rabindranath Tagore Yeats (W.B Yeats) as an outstanding and creative artist of modern India. He was a Bengali poet, novelist and painter who introduced Indian culture to the West in a very impressive manner. The Hindu Analysis
He was an extraordinary and famous litterateur who significantly influenced literature and music.
He was a good friend of Mahatma Gandhi and it is believed that he gave Mahatma Gandhi the title of ‘Mahatma’. Today Current Affairs
He always emphasized that unity in diversity is the only possible way of national integration of India.
In the year 1929 and in the year 1937, he gave a speech in the World Parliament for Religions.
He died on 7 August 1941 in Calcutta.

He is believed to have composed more than 2000 songs and his songs and music are called ‘Rabindra Sangeet’.
He is considered responsible for the modernization of Bengali prose and poetry.
His notable works include Gitanjali, Ghare-Bair, Gora, Mansi, Balka, Sonar Tori etc. He is also remembered for his song ‘Ekla Chalo Re’.
He published his first poems under the name ‘Bhanusimha’ at the age of 16. The Hindu Analysis
He not only composed the national anthems for India and Bangladesh but also inspired a Sri Lankan student to pen and compose the national anthem of Sri Lanka.
Apart from his literary achievements, he was also a philosopher and educationist who founded the Visva-Bharati University in the year 1921 which challenged traditional education.

Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1913 for his poetic composition Gitanjali.
He was the first non-European to win this award.
In the year 1915, he was awarded the title of Knighthood by the British King George V. He renounced the title of knighthood after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in the year 1919.

“You cannot cross the sea just by standing and looking at the sea.”
“Do not limit a child to his education, because he was born at some other time.”
“I have become my version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another—or I’ll build a door. No matter how bleak the present may be, something great will come.”
“Facts are many, but truth is one.”