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 A WRONG MAN IN
WORKER'S PARADISE
-Rabindranath Tagore
RABINDRANATH TAGORE (7 May 1861-7 August
1941)
Rabindranath Tagore, also known as Rabi, was
a Bengali poet, writer, composer, philosopher,
social reformer and lyricist. 
He reshaped Bengali music and literature into
contextual modernism.He was the first non-
European and the first lyricist to win the
Nobel prize in literature for his seminal work
GITANJALI.
His compositions were chosen by two nations
as national anthems: 
India's "Jana Gana Mana" and 
Bangladesh's "Amar Shonar Bangla". 
The Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired
by his work.
Tagore named Gandhi ” Mahatma” and Gandhi used to call him
“Gurudev”.
 He was truly a Gurudev and wanted to revolutionize the Indian
education system and created a model of a new type of university-
Visva Bharati in Santiniketan, West Bengal.
He was politically active and renounced his knighthood and
denounced the British rule and advocated the independence of
India both in his writing and practice.

At the age of 11, Tagore studied the biographies , history ,

astrornomy,modern science,sanskrit and examined the classical
poetry of "Kalidasa". Tagore was highly influenced by the Gurbani
and Nanak Bani. In 1882, Tagore made his debut with a short story
in Bengali "Bikani"
 NOTABLE WORKS OF RABINDRANATH
TAGORE
• In 1901, Rabindranath Tagore moved to Santiniketan where he found
'The Mandir' which was an experimental school having trees, gardens
and a library.
• In 1913, Tagore won  Nobel Prize in Literature.
• Rabindranath Tagore composed nearly 2,230 songs which are known as
'Rabindrasangit'. Tagore was highly influenced by the thumri style of
Hindustani music. 
•  At the age of 20, Tagore wrote his first original dramatic piece 'Valmiki
Pratibha'. 
• Gitanjali. Subject: Devotion to God;Chokher bali. Subject: Extra-marital
affair. 
•  Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi (1890) [The Ideal
One], Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat], Gitanjali (1910) [Song
Offerings], Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs], and Balaka (1916) [The
Flight of Cranes]. 
• The English renderings of his poetry, which include The Gardener (1913),
Fruit-Gathering (1916), and The Fugitive (1921), do not generally
correspond to particular volumes in the original Bengali; and in spite of
its title, Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912), the most acclaimed of them,
contains poems from other works besides its namesake.

•  Tagore's major plays are Raja (1910) [The King of the Dark Chamber],
Dakghar (1912) [The Post Office], Achalayatan (1912) [The Immovable],
Muktadhara (1922) [The Waterfall], and Raktakaravi (1926) [Red
Oleanders]. He is the author of several volumes of short stories and a
number of novels, among them Gora (1910), Ghare-Baire (1916) [The
Home and the World], and Yogayog (1929) [Crosscurrents].

•  Besides these, he wrote musical dramas, 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.
 SUMMARY

• Workers Paradise is a place where people

work all day long. They are so concerned
about their work that they don’t waste
their time if not necessary.
• The title of the story “A wrong man in
workers paradise” was quite apt. The
artist was mistakenly placed in the
workers’ paradise. He did no work all
day long and sat idle. The workers and
the little girl too got influenced..
In the story, with the use of satire,
the author mocks the perspective
of the people towards art.
The story describes the two
worlds: the world of the idle artist
and the other people of paradise.
The residents were always busy
with their work.
According to the time was the only
precious thing and so they wanted
to utilize it properly. They were
happy with their work. The people
prayed to God to bless them with
such works.
The young girl was so
concerned about her
work that she carelessly
tied her hairs. She
moved in a fast-moving
towards the silent
torrent.
But suddenly everything
changed, everyone was
influenced by the idle
artist.
The elders of the
worker’s paradise were
anxious as it was not the
same before, the people
were very concerned
about their every
movement and every
single minute. But now
they waste their time for
nothing.
 CONCLUSION
• The author mocks the perspective of the people of the world
towards art. The author says that “art for art’s sake” serves the
purpose of art. He by presenting the way of the wrong man,
mocks the people who never value art.
• The people of paradise didn’t value paintings, sculptures, and
arts, for them it was just a time pass. They never wanted to
invest their time in such a thing.
• People even didn’t value the artist. They considered him to be
an idle man who misfits in the worker’s paradise.
• The girl gets annoyed when the artist asks her for the pitcher
to paint. She left thinking that she had no time to waste on
such a useless thing. But after the man drew in the pitcher, she
was so amazed that she wasted her golden hours observing it.