Rabindranath Tagore

Born:7 May 1861

Died:7 August 1941

He also known by his sobriquets Gurudev, Kabiguru, and Biswakabi, was a Bengali polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent.
He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Author of the “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse” of Gitanjali,he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
His poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his “elegant prose and magical poetry” remain largely unknown outside Bengal.
He is sometimes referred to as “the Bard of Bengal”.
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.