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Destination Unknown Some poems in Bangla script:

Balaka

Tomi ki kabali

Khapchara

Sonar Tori

Pran

Monepara

Patrolekha

Some Philatalics:

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Rabindranath and Einstein

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Sandeep Mitra's Tagore's Page

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a

leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in

nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate

monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He was educated at

home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he

did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his

many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which

brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in

social reforms. He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he

tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. From time to time he participated in

the Indian nationalist movement, though in his own non-sentimental and

visionary way; and Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his

devoted friend. Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915,

but within a few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British

policies in India. Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal.

With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West.

In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents on

lecture tours and tours of friendship. For the world he became the voice of

India's spiritual heritage; and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a

great living institution. Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary

genres, he was first of all a poet. Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry

are Manasi (1890) [The Ideal One], Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat],

Gitanjali (1910) [song Offerings], Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs], and

Balaka (1916) [The Flight of Cranes]. The English renderings of his poetry,

which include The Gardener (1913), Fruit-Gathering (1916), and The Fugitive

(1921), do not generally correspond to particular volumes in the original

Bengali; and in spite of its title, Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912), the most

acclaimed of them, contains poems from other works besides its namesake.

Tagore's major plays are Raja (1910) [The King of the Dark Chamber], Dakghar

(1912) [The Post Office], Achalayatan (1912) [The Immovable], Muktadhara (1922)

[The Waterfall], and Raktakaravi (1926) [Red Oleanders]. He is the author of

several volumes of short stories and a number of novels, among them Gora

(1910), Ghare-Baire (1916) [The Home and the World], and Yogayog (1929)

[Crosscurrents]. Besides these, he wrote musical dramas, dance dramas, essays

of all types, travel diaries, and two autobiographies, one in his middle years

and the other shortly before his death in 1941. Tagore also left numerous

drawings and paintings, and songs for which he wrote the music

himself.Rabindranath Tagore died in 1941. Copyright© 1997 The Nobel Foundation

Last updated by September 11, 1998

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