Rabindranath Tagore
A Pirahli Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry root in Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight year old at the age of sixteen he release his first substantial poem under the pseudonym Bhanusimha which were sized by literary authorities as long-lost classic.By 1877 he graduated to his first stories and dramas, published under his real name, as a humanist, universalist internationalist, and ardent anti-nationalist. he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised, painting, sketches and doodles hundred of text and some two thousand songs; his legacy also endures in the institution he founded, Vishva-Bharati university.
Tagore modernised bengali art by spurning rigid classical form and resisting linguistic strictures. His novel, story, poem, dance-drama and essay spoke to topic political and personal. Gitanjali, Gora and Ghare-Baireare his best known work and his verse, short stories and novels were acclaimed or pained for their lyricism colloquialism, naturalism and unnatural contemplation. His composition were chosen by two nations as national anthem; Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar bangla. The Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work.
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