75th death anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bangla literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) Source: Wikimedia commons

Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of the modern Indian subcontinent.