Tagore - The Personality....

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                             Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a poet novelist , playwright , musician and a painter. He became Asia's first Nobel Laureatewhen he won the 1913 Nobel prize in Literature.

                              Tagore was born in Calcutta on May 1861, the son of the well known philosopher and religious reformer DEVENDRANATH TAGORE . He was sent to England to study the law, but returned as he found it uninteresting .He began writing poetry early in life and in 1890 he published ' MANASI', a collection that demonstrated his genius . Most of his life spent in his native Bengal ,and much of his writing dealt with the land and its people.