Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
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In 1913, he became the first Asian and first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature — then went on to write the national anthems of two countries. A polymath who reshaped Bengali art, music, and literature while denouncing nationalism itself.
Born into a Bengali Brahmin family in Calcutta on 7 May 1861, Tagore wrote poetry at eight and by sixteen had released poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha that literary authorities mistook for long-lost classics. By 1877 he was publishing short stories and dramas under his own name. His 1913 Nobel Prize recognised the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali, making him the first lyricist to win the award. He modernised Bengali art by rejecting rigid classical forms, producing a vast canon: paintings, sketches, hundreds of texts, some two thousand songs, novels like Gor…
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The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
The idea of the Nation is one of the most powerful anaesthetics that Man has invented.
In the heart of Europe runs the purest stream of human love, of justice, of spirit of self-sacrifice for higher ideals.
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity.
When such imagination and sympathy are essential to write India’s history, We cannot depend on others.
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