Rabindranath Tagore, a renowned poet and a Nobel award receiver for literature, was born in the year 1861. He grew up in the heart of Kolkata in a colonised country. Tagore's works focused on certain issues such as racial humiliation, search for self-esteem, education, and religion that was concerned with India. Literary works, nationalism and Santiniketan remained the passion of Tagore, for more than six decades of his life.
Early Life of Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore was born the youngest of fourteen children, in the Jorasanko mansion, now known as
Tagore House, to parents Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi. Rabindranath's father, Debendranath, was one of the leaders of the Brahmo Samaj.
Rabindranath as a Poet was known for his different forms of creative writing such as essays, letters, short stories, novels and dramas and is best known for his poems. Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi (1890), Sonar Tari (1894), Gitanjali (1910), Gitimalya (1914), and Balaka (1916).Read more :Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet
