{"id":10761,"date":"2023-05-10T11:02:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T05:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10761"},"modified":"2025-03-29T22:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T17:01:35","slug":"rabindranath-tagore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rabindranath-tagore\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabindranath Tagore"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Rabindranath Tagore<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>He was a <strong>world-renowned poet<\/strong>, <strong>litterateur<\/strong>, <strong>philosopher<\/strong> and <strong>Asia\u2019s first Nobel laureate<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>He was <strong>born in Kolkata on May 7, 1861<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>He was the <strong>son of Debendranath Tagore<\/strong>, a prominent philosopher and religious reformer.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>He was popularly <strong>known as Bard of Bengal,<\/strong> and <strong>people used to call him Gurudev.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He <strong>introduced new prose and verse forms<\/strong> and the <strong>use of colloquial language<\/strong> <strong>into Bengali literature<\/strong>, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit.<\/li>\n<li>He was <strong>highly influential in introducing Indian culture to the West<\/strong> and vice versa.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1913<\/strong> he became the <strong>first non-European to receive<\/strong> the <strong>Nobel Prize for Literature<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>He was <strong>also an influential artist and musician<\/strong>. He wrote around <strong>2230 songs<\/strong> and painted <strong>3000 paintings<\/strong>. His <strong>songs are known as Rabindra Sangeet<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Rabindranath Tagore <strong>wrote India&#8217;s national anthem,<\/strong> <strong>Jana Gana Mana<\/strong>. He also <strong>wrote Amar Sonar Bangla,<\/strong> the <strong>national anthem for Bangla<\/strong>desh. The <strong>Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>He was <strong>awarded a knighthood in 1915<\/strong>, but he <strong>repudiated it in 1919<\/strong> as a <strong>protest against the Amritsar (Jallianwalla Bagh) Massacre.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Viswa Bharti University<\/strong>, which was known as <strong>Shantiniketan founded by Rabindranath Tagore.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Major Works:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Tagore\u2019s most notable work of poetry is <i><strong>Gitanjali<\/strong><\/i>: <strong>Song Offerings<\/strong>, for which he <strong>received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Other notable poetry<\/strong> publications include <i><strong>Sonar Tari<\/strong><\/i><strong> and <\/strong><i><strong>Manasi<\/strong>.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>He wrote <strong>novels, plays, and short stories<\/strong> in both languages, including the <strong>plays<\/strong> <i><strong>Chitra<\/strong><\/i><strong> and <\/strong><i><strong>The Post Office<\/strong><\/i><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He is <strong>credited with pioneering the short story form in Bengali literature<\/strong>, with some of his best work collected in <i><strong>The Hungry Stones<\/strong> <strong>and<\/strong> <strong>Other Stories<\/strong><\/i><strong> and <\/strong><i><strong>The Glimpses of Bengal Life.<\/strong><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Who was Debendranath Tagore?<\/h3>\n<p>Debendranath Tagore was the founder of the Brahmo Religion in 1843, which today is identical with Brahmoism. This is the youngest religion of India and Bangladesh. Debendranath Tagore was an Indian religious reformer and Hindu philosopher. This Bengali personality is the father of Rabindranath Tagore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/national\/pm-narendra-modi-pays-tributes-to-tagore-1217078.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM Narendra Modi pays tributes to Tagore<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabindranath Tagore was a world-renowned poet, litterateur, philosopher and Asia\u2019s first Nobel laureate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}