First Nobel Prize Winner In India

The Poem Magician of India - Rabindra Nath Tagore
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About Rabindranath Tagore
Considered a Bengali sage, Rabindranath Tagore had literally redefined music and literature of that particular region. He was the first non-European to be awarded annual Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for authoring the intensely sensitive fresh but gleaming Bengali verse, Gitanjali. As an impulsive spiritual poetry, it equally maintains beauty in translated form. He attained newer kind of prophetic reputation in the West through his apparently hypnotic personality of flowing hair and maintaining the ethereal dressing sense. Ironically, his graceful prose and enchanted poetry remained confined to Bengal although he wrote Indian national anthem to become famous nationwide.
Works
The works of Tagore are long lost classics from idiomatic Bengali literature which he presented for the first time as verse forms in the new prose style. By 1877, he had already attained his share of popularity for short stories and dramas written and published on his birth name. His works are surely multidimensional to portray his image of Universalist internationalist, humanist and vociferous anti-nationalist condemning the Raj. He fought for India's independence from Britain rule through his writings. Also considered the champion of Bengal Renaissance, this famous writer had in his kitty huge tenet which had sketches and doodles, paintings, hundreds of texts in addition to approximately two thousand songs he wrote. Famous Vishva-Bharati University is his enduring legacy even today. Role of Tagore in modernising Bengali art through using the repelling linguistic strictures and his steps to snub rigid classical forms are appreciated. Most of his works from novels to sings, stories, dance-dramas besides essays defining his personal and political leanings. He was the first non-European and Asian to be awarded Nobel Prize in Literature for his work Gitanjali (the Song Offerings).
Thoughtful sensitivity Rabindranath Tagore projected through his fresh and astonishing verses was chosen for Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. His works were sign of the flawless skill he used to present under poetically empowered thoughtfulness which he himself expressed in the translated version of his work in English that Western world liked and accepted in their literatures.
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