Rabindranath Tagor - INDIAN NOBEL PRIZE

INDIAN NOBEL LAUREATES
                                                          RABINDRANATH
                                                                                                                      TAGORE (1861-1941)

           He was born on May 7, 1861 in Calcutta (Kolkata). He was awarded the Nobel  Prize for Literature in recognition of his work Gitanjali (S0ng Offerings) in 1913. Gitanjali is a collection of 103 poems, originally written in Bengalli and translated into English by Tagore himself in 1912. He was the first Indian to receive a Nobel Prize and the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature. Popularly known as Gurudev, he founded a small experimental school at Shantiniketan (Abode of Peace), a place 150 km from Calcutta (Kolkota), in 1901. Which later came to be known as the Vishwabharati University. The poet, dramatist, novelist, painter and philosopher is also the author of our National Anthem. The British Government knighted him with the title :Sir" which he returned in 1919 in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.