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Rabi tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, India into a wealthy Brahmin family. After a brief
stay in England (1878) to attempt to study law, he returned to India, and instead pursued a career
as a writer, playwright, songwriter, poet, philosopher and educator. Rabindranath Tagore was a
poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, educationist, social reformer, nationalist, business-
manager and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries. He became Asia's first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in
Literature for Gitanjali. Tagore wrote eight novels and four novellas, including Chaturanga,
Shesher Kobita, Char Odhay, and Noukadubi Ghare Baire. Tagore also wrote about 2,230 songs
in his life time. Manasi, Shonar Tari, Gitanjali, Balaka are some of this great poetries. He is also
know as “Kobi Guru”.

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