Rabindranath Tagore (IPA: /rə'bɪndrəˌnät tə'gôr/, /'täkur/; Bangla: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর, transliteration: Robindronath Ţhakur; May 7, 1861 – August 7, 1941) was a Bengali poet, Brahmo (reformed Hindu) philosopher, artist, dramatist, musician, novelist, and songwriter who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, becoming the first Asian Nobel laureate. Tagore, also known as Gurudev, revolutionized Bengali literature with such works as The Home and the Wor ...

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• Rabindranath Tagore - Biography
• Rabindranath Tagore - Early life
• Rabindranath Tagore - Life at Shelaidaha
• Rabindranath Tagore - Life at Santiniketan
• Rabindranath Tagore - Literature
• Rabindranath Tagore - Short stories
• Rabindranath Tagore - Drama
• Rabindranath Tagore - Poetry
• Rabindranath Tagore - Music
• Rabindranath Tagore - Novels
• Rabindranath Tagore - Partial bibliography
• Rabindranath Tagore - Notes

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Poetry dominates Tagore's literary reputation, but he also wrote novels, essays, short stories, travelogues, and drama. He also wrote numerous songs and composed all of them himself. Rabindranath Tagore - Short stories. Of Tagore's prose, perhaps most highly regarded are his short stories. He is credited with developing Bangla short story writing. His short stories are written in a prose that is rhythmic, often to the point of being poetic. However, his stories mostly borrow from deceptively simpl ...

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Rabindranath Tagore - Early life. Tagore was born in Jorasanko, Kolkata (Calcutta; Bangla: কলকাতা), the son of Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi. Debendranath Tagore formulated the Brahmo faith propagated by his friend, the reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Debendranath became the central figure in Brahmo society after Ray's death, who was addressed out of respect by followers as maharishi.[1] He continued to lead the Adi Brahmo Shomaj until he died.^{See also:}

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