Remembering Rabindranath Tagore
posted on May 7, 2014 4:38PM
Amidst the polling fever that has caught the Indian Nation today , May 7th ( 1861) also happens to be Rabindranath Tagore or Gurudev as he was popularly known as, 154th Birth anniversary. He became the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his literary work titled Gitanjali and with this he introduced new prose and verse forms into Bengali literature. Tagore was a prolific composer too with 2,230 songs to his credit his songs which are popularly sung under the genre of Rabindra Sangeeth , which merges fluidly into his literature, most of which—poems or parts of novels, stories, or plays alike were lyricised.
TeluguOne pays its Tributes to this National Poet on his 154th Birth Anniversary.