Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi (1890), Sonar Tari (1894), Gitanjali (1910), Gitimalya (1914), and Balaka (1916). For the world he became the voice of India’s spiritual heritage and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a great living institution.Īlthough Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first of all a poet. In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents on lecture tours and tours of friendship. With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West. Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British policies in India. From time to time he participated in the Indian nationalist movement, though in his own non-sentimental and visionary way and Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend. He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. He was educated at home and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. R abindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. Share via Email: Rabindranath Tagore – Biographical Share this content via Email.Share on LinkedIn: Rabindranath Tagore – Biographical Share this content on LinkedIn.Tweet: Rabindranath Tagore – Biographical Share this content on Twitter.Share on Facebook: Rabindranath Tagore – Biographical Share this content on Facebook. ![]() If you could contact us at we could arrange to add this and the original to the site and, maybe, others you have transalted. Transcreation of the poem – Dharmamoha – from the collection Parishesh. Hurl your thunder at the prison walls of faiths Save those who are deluded by their faith. Please come to end this degeneration of religion They drown sailing in a boat they themselves have scuttled Putting him up like a dividing wall who comes to uniteįlooding the world with poison in his name Planting him as a stake who comes to liberate With his scythe the god of destruction is coming. The shame of ages, the cruelties and barbarities He hoists a blood-stained flag in his temple He kills the son in the name of the father ![]() Here is another Tagore poem in my translation which is very relevant today.īecause he doesn’t have the vanity of any faith. Anyhow thanks for the one who put my favourite poem on line and giving this opportunity to comment. If Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and Subhas Chandra Bose were alive, they would rather prefer commiting suicide with the growing inequalities and atrocities the present leadership is resorting to and giving direction to. Kabi Guru Rabindranath Tagore is a great visionary - It was written in pre-Independence period and even after 63 years of Independence this holds good and we must feel shy that the successive Governments are failing to removing those 'Narrow Domestic Walls' Kabi Guru was worried about - rather with their narrow-minded approach to draw personal and political mileages, our leaders are cashing in on these inherent weaknesses of the innocent people of this Great Indian Society. Really Great ! A wonderful poem, I too read in my school days and repeat fondly to everyone I come across or whenever a discussion on 'narrow domestic walls' very much prevalent and extending their tentacles day-after-day in this Country comes for discussion among friends. From guest Jagannadham Rachakonda, Executive Assistant, NRIAS, Chinakakani ( contact)
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