In , Tagore published his prose-songs and dance drama works in Chitra, Shyama in and Chandalika in Rabindranath Tagore after inclining towards science wrote stories-- Se in , Tin Sangi in and Galpasalpa in Rabindranath Tagore along with his brother Jyotirindranath started experiencing drama at the age of sixteen.
At the age of 20, Tagore wrote his first original dramatic piece 'Valmiki Pratibha'. In , Tagore wrote 'Visarjan'-- his finest drama. In , Tagore wrote 'Dak Ghar' where the child Amal defying his stuffy and puerile confines by ultimately fall asleep. Tagore defined death as 'spiritual freedom from the world of hoarded wealth and certified creeds'. Tagore's other play was 'Chandalika' the story of an untouchable girl and described how Ananda disciple of Gautama Buddha , asks a tribal girl for water.
Rabindranath Tagore composed nearly 2, songs which are known as 'Rabindrasangit'. Tagore was highly influenced by the thumri style of Hindustani music.
Rabindranath Tagore at the age of sixty years started drawing and painting. After the encouragement by artists of France, Tagore's work made a debut appearance in Paris. It is said that Tagore was red-green colour blind and his artworks reflect strange colour schemes. In , Tagore wrote to Jagadishchandra Bose about his drawings.
Tagore withdrew from painting as he was using eraser more than the pencil and was dissatisfied with his artwork. Are you worried or stressed? Click here for Expert Advice. Comment 3. Post Comment. Later, the Swedish Academy presented two replicas of the prize, one made of gold and the other of bronze, to Visva-Bharati University.
Establishing Visva-Bharati In an attempt to challenge conventional methods of classroom education, Tagore established an university of his own, where he wanted humanity to be studied "somewhere beyond the limits of nation and geography". Here, many classes are still held under trees in open fields. For setting up Visva-Bharati, declared a central university in May , Tagore used the cash he received with the Nobel prize and collected funds from around the world.
The only person to have composed the national anthems of three countries Most people know that Tagore wrote the national anthems of India and Bangladesh - 'Jana Gana Mana' and 'Amar Sonar Bangla' respectively. But few know that Sri Lanka's national anthem is based on a Bengali song originally written by Tagore in It was translated into Sinhalese and adopted as the national anthem in Tagore is thus the only person to have composed the national anthems of three countries.
Albert Einstein and Tagore shared a love for music. But experts have said that though Tagore admired Gandhi, he differed with him on certain issues. A recent story on Scroll. Coloured ink on paper by Rabindranath Tagore, As a motif that persists right through his artistic career, it demonstrates his undiminished interest in human persona.
Here again, as in his dramatic juxtaposition of figures, without turning literary his paintings show an overlap with one of his literary concerns and is enriched by it.
As a writer, especially as a writer of short stories, he was used to linking human appearance with an inner human essence. When he took to painting he found a similar opportunity in the representation of the human face.
In the beginning this usually led him to turn the face into a mask or a hieratic symbol of a social type, later as his representational skills and expressive assurance grew shadows of faces he encountered or remembered began to meld with the painted faces and give them the resonance and expansiveness of characters. His painted faces are varied in appearance and social stature but each one encapsulates within its small compass the lineaments of a vaster human experience. We have launched a new website and are reviewing this page.
Find out more. Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West.
In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents on lecture tours and tours of friendship. Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first of all a poet. The English renderings of his poetry, which include The Gardener , Fruit-Gathering , and The Fugitive , do not generally correspond to particular volumes in the original Bengali; and in spite of its title, Gitanjali: Song Offerings , the most acclaimed of them, contains poems from other works besides its namesake.
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