Rabindranath
Tagore, mystic, painter and Nobel laureate for
literature is among the leading personalities
of modern Bangladesh & India. He was born
in Calcutta on May 7, 1861 and was the youngest
of fourteen children. His father, Debendranath
Tagore, was a Sanskrit scholar and a leading
member of the Brahmo Samaj.
He was awarded
Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) for his collection
of well known poems Gitanjali. 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.
