RABINDRANATH NATH TAGORE
Rabindranath Tagore, the greatest poet of bengali literature, was born on May 7,1861 at Jorasanko in Calcutta. His parents were Maharshi Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi. Rabindranath was born and brought up in a very rich and cultured family. He had his early school education at the Oriental Seminary and the Metropolitan Institution. But school life didn't suit him. So he continued his studies at home under private tutors. Then he went to England for higher studies. Rabindranath began writing poems ever since his very childhood. He got the most prestigious Nobel Prize in 1913 for his outstanding contribution in the field of literature. This great educationist founded the Visva Bharati University at Shantiniketan in 1902. Rabindranath was a great patriot, too. He started the,'Rakhibandhan' and renounced Knighthood in protest against the Jalianwalah Bag massacre in 1919. This great poet of the world died on August 7,1941,but his thoughts and ideas will never die.