Rabindranath Tagore was born on the 7th of May 1861 in Calcutta, the British India, and passed away on 7th August, 1941.
Do you know that Tagore was the person who conferred the title of Mahatma on Gandhi? Not only that, he also shared a unique friendship with Einstein.
Rabindranath Tagore was a great poet and polymath who completely transformed Bengali music and literature. His work known as ‘Gitanjali’ was the first non-European work of literature to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Two nations, India and Bangladesh, have only Tagore to thank for their National Anthems.
Famous Quote: “Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”