• Was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which 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 Upanishards.

• He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided litrary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with commong humanity and increased his interest in social reforms.

• Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend. Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British policies in India.

• Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With hs translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West. In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents on the lecture tours and tours of friendship. For the world he became the voice of India’s spiritual heritage; and for India, especially for Benagl, He became a great living institution.

• Although Tagore wrote musical drames, dance dramas, essays of all types, travel diaries, and two autobiographies, one in his middle years and the other shortly before his death in 1941.

• Tagore also left numerous drawings and paintings, and songs for which he wrote the Music himself.

• Rabindranath Tagore Died on August 7, 1941.

• Souce: nobelprize.org