Rabindranath Biography
Date of Birth: May 7, 1861 Place of Birth: Calcutta, British India Date of Death: August 7, 1941 Place of Death: Calcutta, British India Profession: Writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, painter Spouse: Mrinalini Devi Children: Renuka Tagore, Shamindranath Tagore, Meera Tagore, Rathindranath Tagore and Madhurilata Tagore Father: Debendranath Tagore Mother: Sarada Devi Award: Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) Rabindranath Tagore, who composed the National Anthem of India and won the Nobel Prize for Literature, was a multitalented personality in every sense. He was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, painter and composer. He was also a cultural reformer who modified Bengali art by rebuffing the strictures that confined it within the sphere of classical Indian forms. Though he was a polymath, his literary works alone are enough to place him in the elite list of...