Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 2021: Remembering Gurudev, The World’s Foremost Cultural Icon. Check Memorable Books, Songs & Quotes

New Delhi: Today the world remembers one of the world’s foremost cultural icon and remarkable genius Rabindranath Tagore on birth anniversy, also popularly celebrated as Rabindra Jayanti. Born on May 7, 1861, was brought up in a family which was at the forefront of Bengali Renaissance. In Bengal, the day is celebrated as Pochishe Boishakh when Tagore’s followers and admirers across the work mark the day singing his songs that celebrate life.

To mark the birth anniversary of the Nobel laureate, the official Twitter feed of the Nobel Prize Literature shared experience of Laureate Yasunari Kawabata on his memories from his middle-school days of the “sage-like poet” Rabindranath Tagore.

A multifaceted personality, Tagore was polymath who modernised Bengali art by spinning novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays that covered a wide range of topics, from politics to religion and spirituality.

The ministry of cultural also took to Twitter remembering the world icon saying, the nobel laureate became the voice of India’s spiritual heritage and his poetry has influenced generations.

Like most noted luminaries of his time, Tagore had tasted early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations of some of his poems, he then emerged as a known face in the West.  He wrote ‘Gora’, the most complex of the 12 novels which raises a number of issues pertaining to current scenario of our country. The book is a reflection and analysis of the multifarious social life in colonial India.

A prolific songwriter, Tagore made a collection of poems called ‘Geetanjali’ which made him earn a Nobel prise. Tagore in 1913 became the first Asian Nobel laureate and the first non-European to win the prize for literature. Bengali bard who still exists in everyday life of an average Bengali, is remembered through his illustrious art of work left behind. His other best works include Rakta Karabi, Ghare Baire, Shesher Kobita, Raja O Rani, Tasher Desh, Dena Paona, Shanchayita.

While Gitanjali is Tagore’s tour de force, proficient songwriter Tagore composed 2,230 songs categorised as Rabindra Sangeet.

Rabindranath Tagore is the only known person to have written the national anthems for two different countries. His two songs, Jana Gana Mana and Amar Sonar Bangla were adopted as the national anthem for India and the national anthem for Bangladesh.

At the age of 60, Tagore took up drawing and painting, and held successful exhibitions of his works first in Paris and later on in different parts of Europe.

Famous quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”

“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

“Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

“The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable.”