RABINDRANATH TAGORE Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর‚ Robindronath Ţhakur) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)‚ sobriquet Gurudev‚ was a Bengali poet‚ novelist‚ musician‚ painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive‚ fresh and beautiful verse"‚ he was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. His poetry in translation was viewed as spiritual‚ and this together with his mesmerizing persona
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Analysis of Rabindranath Tagore as a creative mind Noted as the first Nobel Laureate of Asia‚ Rabindranath Tagore’s works span across many genres beside poetry. His acquaintance with literature and language started at a very early age. He learnt Bengali‚ Sanskrit and English apart from math‚ history‚ art‚ science and the Upanishads. His introduction to classic literature began with the plays of Macabeth and poetry of Kalidasa‚ both of which he partly translated into Bengali. During these early
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Not the Ordinary Birthday Celebration It was the morning of February 20th‚ 2007‚ my great grandmother’s birthday! The agenda for the day was to first finish packing up the house because move in day for our new home was just hours away. Once that was all done and the truck was locked and loaded us as a family would head to TGI Fridays to celebrate my great grandmother’s birthday as we did every year since her passing. TGI Fridays was where we had her last birthday dinner before she passed;
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the man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science‚ is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance‚ obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore‚ Nationalism‚ 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of education is to create a sound mind in a sound body. Great educators in the past have explained the term “Education” as the art of “leading out” which means education is to draw out rather
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Critical Analysis of Rabindranath Tagore’s Story ’Kabuliwala’: Love and Waiting Rabindranath Tagore’s story Kabuliwala‚ set in the early twentieth century Kolkata‚ is about a little girl Mini and a Kabuliwala exploring the bonds of friendship‚ affection and parting in the relationship between them transcending the borders of race‚ religion and language. The prime characters are two: Kabuliwala and Mini. Kabuliwala’s name was Abdur Rehman Khan a middle-aged Pathan trader‚ a dry fruit seller from
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about Gandhiji’s articles the scheme of Basic Education took shape under the leadership of Dr. Zakir Hussain. The following four resolutions were passed. (i) Free and compulsory education should be given to all children for a period of seven years. (ii) The medium of instruction should be the mother tongue‚ (iii) The process of education should be centred round some form of manual production work in the shape of a craft. (iv) This education should be self-supporting to some extent
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Maulid al-Nabi: The Veneration and Celebration of Prophet Muhammad’s Birthday RLGN 3190 April 15‚ 2014 The message of Islam has spread across many lands with differing cultures and varying interpretations of the divine word of Allah. The entity that unites all the variances of the religion is the Prophet Muhammad. Unlike the rest of the topics that surround the religion‚ his importance as the pioneer of Islam is unique and unquestioned. It can reassuringly be claimed
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* Tagore was born on 7 May 1861. At some time towards the end of the seventeenthcentury‚ his forefathers had migrated from their native lands to Govindpur‚ one of the three villageswhich later came to constitute Calcutta. In the course of time‚ the family came to acquire propertyand considerable business interests through the pursuit of commercial and banking activities. Theyhad particularly benefited from the growing power of the British East India Company.Rabindranath’s grandfather‚ Dwarkanath
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Rabindranath Tagore‚ popularly known as “the Shelley of Bengal.” Tagore was a Ben¬gali‚ but he belongs to the whole world‚ not to speak of India. He was a universalistic and a humanist through and through. Tagore was born on May 6‚ 1861 in Calcutta. He came from a rich family of land¬lords. But he had the milk of human kind-ness for the poor and the downtrodden. Tagore was not sent to any school‚ he was taught at home. He was a highly preco¬cious child. As such‚ he was capable of learning more
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Summary of poem ’Where the Mind is Without Fear’ by Rabindranath Tagore. Included in the volume called Naibedya‚ the original poem bears the title ’ Prarthana’ i.e. prayer. The poem is a prayer to a universal father-figure‚ presumably‚ God. The poet wishes to be awakened to a heaven where the mind can work fearlessly and the spirit can hold its head high‚ where one can acquire knowledge in all freedom of choice‚ where the big world of man is not fragmented or restricted to small mutually exclusive
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