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Prolific playwright,
novelist, and poet, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature (1861-1941). We owe Tagore a debt of
gratitude for the bridges he built between Indian
and Western cultures.
Rabindranath Tagore's compassion ran deep and
permeated his writing. Today is his birthday! So this thread is a tribute to the legendary poet of India. Let's celebrate together!
Within the short span of
five years, his wife, son,and daughter died. Rather than becoming bitter,
Tagore turned his sorrow into tenderly poignant mystical poems. In 1891,
he went to manage his father's estate, living close to villagers and developing sympathy for them which became the keynote for later writings.
Although he was awarded
the knighthood in 1915,he surrendered it four years later to protest the British massacre of
Indians. In "Mind Without Fear," Tagore shares his dream of a world that's not been "broken up into
fragments by narrow
domestic walls:"
Where the mind is
without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not
been broken up into
fragments by narrow
domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards
perfection;Where the clear stream of
reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action --
Into that heaven of
freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
According to the Bengali calendar, the date of Tagore's birth is 25th Baisakh, 1268. It is uncertain where this date falls on the Gregorian calendar, May 8 being one
of the possibilities. Shuvo Jonmodin Kobiguru Rabindranath Tagore!
Shuvo Jonmodin! India-Forums er pokkho hote Kobir proti Sroddhanjoli.
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