Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 in Calcutta India. He was a Bengali poet who won the Noble Prize in 1913. He was one of the most influential persons of that time, and even until this day, in introducing to western culture the best of Indian culture, and vice versa. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1988). That is part of the purpose of this book, in addition to giving young people of India an opportunity to learn about their own cultural heritage.Tagore was born into a large, extended family, he was the youngest of 13 surviving children, and his father sent him to England to study, with the desire for him to become ...
Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 in Calcutta India. He was a Bengali poet who won the Noble Prize in 1913. He was one of the most influential persons of that time, and even until this day, in introducing to western culture the best of Indian culture, and vice versa. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1988). That is part of the purpose of this book, in addition to giving young people of India an opportunity to learn about their own cultural heritage.Tagore was born into a large, extended family, he was the youngest of 13 surviving children, and his father sent him to England to study, with the desire for him to become ...