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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Rabindranath Tagore A poet Novelist Musician and Playwright.

Rabindranath Tagore Bengali Poems, Songs Lyrics

Rabindranath Tagore Songs Lyrics, Bengali Poems / kobita. Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, musician, novelist, playwright par excellence.

He was the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in literature in 1913 for Gitanjali.

Rabindranath Tagore Songs Lyrics, Bengali Poems / kobita. Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, musician, novelist, playwright par excellence.

He was the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in literature in 1913 for Gitanjali.

Endless Time – a poem by Rabindranath Tagore

Time is endless in thy hands, my lord.
There is none to count thy minutes.

Days and nights pass and ages bloom and fade like flowers.
Thou knowest how to wait.

Thy centuries follow each other perfecting a small wild flower.

We have no time to lose,
and having no time we must scramble for a chance.
We are too poor to be late.

And thus it is that time goes by
while I give it to every querulous man who claims it,
and thine altar is empty of all offerings to the last.

At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate be shut;
but I find that yet there is time.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Have anyone ever visualised a classroom to be a matchbox? The students as the matchsticks? Matchsticks tightly locked in a precise space of a box.
A great Indian did. He never went to a school because of this type of visualization. But proved to the world that education does not merely mean book knowledge but the power within. This great Indian was none other but the great nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

Rabindranath Tagore, was born in 1861, as the 13 child and the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, who was the leader of the Brahmo samaj. Samaj means a sect or a cult. This Brahmo samaj was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads.
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Rabindranath Tagore was given education by private teachers at home.All that he was interested in, was literature. At the age of seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling. But still then he left his studies and returned back to Bengal.
From time to time he participated in the Indian nationalist movement, though in his own non-sentimental and visionary way; and Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend.

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. In protest of the Jalianwala Bagh massacare, Tagore returned his honour of knighthood.
He was freedom fighter too. but his weapon was his pen. His writing was aginst the british, about the condition of India. For the world he became the voice of India’s spiritual heritage; and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a great living institution.

Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first of all a poet.He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education.

Rabindranath Tagore died on August 7, 1941.

Dug up from the files, half torn or lost and half almost unreadable, here is a very very rare pic of the two great masters of the human history, Albert Einstein and Rabindranath Tagore, Taken back in the year 1930 at Dhaka, where Einstein came to see Mr. Tagore. Nothing more to say, than just having a look at the pic might make your day.

Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর)α[›]β[›](7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath. As a poet, novelist, musician, and playwright, he reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became Asia's first Nobel laureate by winning the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.

A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta, Tagore wrote poems at age eight. At age sixteen, he published his first substantial poetry under the pseudonym Bhanushingho ("Sun Lion") and wrote his first short stories and dramas in 1877. Tagore denounced the British Raj and supported the Indian Independence Movement. His efforts endure in his vast canon and in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University.

Tagore modernised Bengali art by rejecting the strictures of rigid classical Indian forms. His novels, short stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays ranged over political and personal topics alike. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are among his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed for their lyricism, colloquialism, meditative naturalism, and philosophical contemplation. Two Tagore songs are the national anthems of Bangladesh and India: Amar Shonar Bangla and Jana Gana Mana.

Albert Einstein (pronounced /ˈælbərt ˈaɪnstaɪn/; German: [ˈalbɐt ˈaɪ̯nʃtaɪ̯n] 14 March 1879–18 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist. His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology, the first post-Newtonian expansion, explaining the perihelion advance of Mercury, prediction of the deflection of light by gravity and gravitational lensing, the first fluctuation dissipation theorem which explained the Brownian movement of molecules, the photon theory and wave-particle duality, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, the zero-point energy concept, the semiclassical version of the Schrödinger equation, and the quantum theory of a monatomic gas which predicted Bose-Einstein condensation.

Einstein is best known for his theories of special relativity and general relativity. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”.

Einstein published more than 300 scientific and over 150 non-scientific works.[3] He is often regarded as the father of modern physics.

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Novels and Novellas written by Rabindranath Tagore