Rabindranath Tagore is one of the proud sons of India who was the first one to receive the Nobel Prize for literature from Asia. This multitalented personality is at once a philosopher, poet, dramatist, painter, novelist, educationist and a composer. Lets know about the interesting facts about him.

1.  He wrote national anthems for not India but also for Bangladesh but also for Sri Lanka. He wrote the anthem in Bengali. However later, when the country got its independence it had been translated into Tamil by dynamic few lines it had been formally taken because the anthem for the country.

2. The anthem “JANA GANA MANA” was the gap song for the Congress session in 1911. And only later it had adopted because the anthem for the Country.

3. He had a great talent in painting and played a vital role in modernizing the Bengali art. Greatly moved by the Jallianwallabagh massacre and to express his deep reverence for freedom, he gave up his knighthood conferred by the British. 

4. He was the 1st Non-European to induce the Nobel prize in literature but neither as a Bengali nor as an Indian however as an“ANGLO-INDIAN”.

5. Tagore became reverence as an ancient teacher. He wrote in Bengali however translated a lot of his literature in English.

6. Rabindranath Tagore has also written Ravīndranātha Thākura.

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