A multifaceted personality, poet, author, painter- polymath Rabindranath Tagore, first non-European to be awarded the Nobel prize. He began writing poetry when he was only eight years old.
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A multifaceted personality, poet, author, painter- polymath Rabindranath Tagore, first non-European to be awarded the Nobel prize. He began writing poetry when he was only eight years old. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. He believed in universal humanity which reflected in his works.
Gitanjali, a collection of poetry, the most famous work by Rabindranath Tagore, published in India in 1910. Tagore then translated it into prose poems in English, as Gitanjali: Song Offerings and it was published in 1912 with an introduction by William Butler Yeats. The collection helped win the Nobel Prize for Literature for Tagore in 1913.
Genre: Poem
Chokher Bali, a Bengali novel written by Tagore. ‘Chokher Bali’ or ‘A grain of sand’ is a story that revolves around an extra-marital affair. The whole novel is a collection of various human emotions. You can get to feel a pain of young widow woman, betrayal, guile, untold love and much more.
Genre: Novel
Noukadoobi is a Bengali novel written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1906. The novel was first published in Bangadarshan, a Bengali literary magazine that was under the editorship of Rabindranath himself at that moment. It reflects the position of women in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The customs and religious mores prescribed and proscribed by conservative Brahman Class.
Genre: Novel
Gora, it is the largest and the most complex of the 12 novels written by Rabindranath Tagore. It questions the identity of each of its characters as well as the Indian nation. Caste, tradition, filial piety, patriotism and marriage are all philosophical addressed in the novel.
Tagore examines the difference between religion and religious fanaticism. This book is a reflection and analysis of the multifarious social life in colonial India
Genre: Novel
Ghare Baire is a psychological novel and reflects upon the deeper meaning of life through a portrayal of the struggles of three distinct individuals. The book illustrates the battle Tagore had with himself, between the ideas of Western culture and revolution against the Western culture. The backdrop of this novel is the Swadeshi Movement, which played an important role in the independence of India.
Genre: Novel
