Rabindranath Tagore
Author of Gitanjali and its
"profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse",[2] he became the
first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913
Rabindranath Tagore
(1861-1941) developed the Bengali novel after Bankim’s death. His early novels
were historical; he later shifted to writing stories about domestic
relationships. He was mainly preoccupied with the condition of women and
nationalism. Both concerns are featured in his Ghare Baire (1916) translated in
1919 as The Home and the World.
At age sixteen, he released
his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion")
His compositions were chosen
by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's
Amar Shonar Bangla.
Tagore released his Manasi
poems (1890), among his best-known work
Baul Lalon Shah, whose folk
songs greatly influenced Tagore.
Gitanjali: Song
Offerings.[46] In 1915, the British Crown granted Tagore a knighthood. He renounced
it after the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
In 1921, Tagore and
agricultural economist Leonard Elmhirst set up the "Institute for Rural
Reconstruction", later renamed Shriniketan or "Abode of
Welfare",
His last dictation: I'm lost
in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's
last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the human's last
blessing. Today my sack is empty. I have given completely whatever I had to
give. In return if I receive anything—some love, some forgiveness—then I will
take it with me when I step on the boat that crosses to the festival of the
wordless end.
His brief chat with
Einstein, "Note on the Nature of Reality"
His songs are known as
rabindrasangit
At sixty, Tagore took up
drawing and painting;
At twenty he wrote his first
drama-opera: Valmiki Pratibha (The Genius of Valmiki)
Tagore wrote eight novels
and four novellas, among them Chaturanga, Shesher Kobita, Char Odhay, and
Noukadubi. Ghare Baire (The Home and the World
Tagore's three-volume
Galpaguchchha comprises eighty-four stories that reflect upon the author's
surroundings, on modern and fashionable ideas, and on mind puzzles.
Santiniketan and
Visva-Bharati
Tagore despised rote
classroom schooling: in "The Parrot's Training", a bird is caged and
force-fed textbook pages—to death] Tagore, visiting Santa Barbara in 1917,
conceived a new type of university: he sought to "make Santiniketan the
connecting thread between India and the world [and] a world center for the study
of humanity somewhere beyond the limits of nation and geography."[154] The
school, which he named Visva-Bharati,η[›] had its foundation stone laid on 24
December 1918 and was inaugurated precisely three years later.[162] Tagore
employed a brahmacharya system: gurus gave pupils personal guidance—emotional,
intellectual, and spiritual. Teaching was often done under trees. He staffed
the school, he contributed his Nobel Prize monies,[163] and his duties as
steward-mentor at Santiniketan kept him busy: mornings he taught classes;
afternoons and evenings he wrote the students' textbooks
Every year, many events pay
tribute to Tagore: Kabipranam, his birth anniversary, is celebrated by groups
scattered across the globe; the annual Tagore Festival held in Urbana, Illinois;
Rabindra Path Parikrama walking pilgrimages from Calcutta to Santiniketan
He co-founded Dartington
Hall School, a progressive coeducational institutionin Japan
Gitanjali:
Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি) is a collection of poems by the Indian poet
Rabindranath Tagore. The original Bengali collection of 157 poems was published
on August 14, 1910. The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of
103 English poems of Tagore's own English translations of his Bengali poems
first published in November 1912 by the India Society of London. It contained
translations of 53 poems from the original Bengali Gitanjali, as well as 50
other poems which were from his drama Achalayatan and eight other books of
poetry - mainly Gitimalya (17 poems), Naivedya (15 poems) and Kheya (11 poems)
The English Gitanjali became
very famous in the West, and was widely translated. The word gitanjali is
composed from "git", song, and "anjali", offering, and thus
means – "An offering of songs"
As per Indian Govt website:Some highlights of the National Commemoration are:
- Tagore Commemoration Grant Scheme (TCGS) to provide
financial assistance to organisations/institutions for organising
programmes and events related to Tagore, his ideas, works and philosophy
and to hold exhibitions of Tagore’s paintings, photographs, documentaries
and new media interventions.
- Creation of new Tagore Centres and revitalising the
existing centres created during the Centenary Celebrations of Gurudev’s
Birth Anniversary in 1961. Revamping of Multipurpose Cultural Complexes
(MPCCs) scheme and replacing it with “Scheme for Tagore Cultural
Complexes”.
- Instituting “Tagore Award for Promotion of Universal
Brotherhood”.
- Publication of Tagore’s works and contributions.
Tagore
Commemoration Grant Scheme (TCGS) has been launched by the Ministry of Culture to
provide financial assistance to Not for profit organization holding cultural
programmes to commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of
Rabindranath Tagore.
Under the
new Tagore Cultural Complexes Scheme, the existing Rabindra ‘Bhawans’,
‘Manchas’, ‘Sadans’, ‘Rangshalas’ and other cultural centres will be upgraded
and modernised into state-of-the-art cultural complexes. These structures were
created as part of a nation-wide programme launched on the occasion of
Centenary Celebrations of Rabindranath Tagore in 1961. Besides restoring these
structures, new cultural complexes will be created in the State Capitals and
other cities where no such complexes exist.
The ministry of culture announced a “visitng fellow scheme “
in 2009 . As actual selection was made during Tagore's
150 year's celebrations (in May 2010), the Ministry of Culture approved
renaming of the Scheme as Tagore National Fellowship
and issued an extended version of the scheme on 7th May, 2011.
The
objective of the Scheme is to invigorate and revitalise various cultural
institutions which have vast treasures in the form of manuscripts, documents,
artifacts, antiquities and paintings. The purpose is to encourage serious
researches in the cultural resources of these institutions.
Online Electronic Variorium
“Bichitra”: An online Electronic Variorium
Edition of Works of Rabindranath Tagore is a project undertaken by the School
of Cultural textx and Records, Jadavpur University in association with Rabindra
Bhavan supported by Ministry of Culture. GoI.
- The Archaeological Survey of India’s (ASI)
Kolkata circle has started the restoration work of the heritage buildings
in Shantiniketan. Altogether 27 heritage buildings have been identified
for Structural Conservation.
- Shantiniketan Griha
- Glass temple
- Taladhwaja
- Pampa Lake
- Lily Pool
- Chitrabhanu
- Guhaghar
- Parishista
- Udichi
- Dinantika
- Dwija-Birama
- Malancha
The National
Implementation Committee (NIC) has decided to undertake a major project in
which a chronological anthology of Rabindranath Tagore’s works will be
published. After completion the project will be known as Kalanukramik Rabindra Rachnavali.
The anthology will be able to capture how Tagore worked on a day to day basis
during his creative period and help us to connect with his artistic and other
activities such as painting, dramatic performances, music, education and nation
building.
Tagore
centres of learning: A committee of experts has been constituted by Ministry of
HRD to evaluate National and Overseas proposals received by the Government for
setting up educational institutes based on Tagore’s teachings, as part of
Commemoration of 150th Birth Anniversary of the poet.
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