![]() ![]() Historically, India was under British rule for close to two centuries. In the times and the contexts that he wrote, the perspectives were so totally different from what they are today that contemporary India cannot easily relate to some of his writings. ![]() For all his life, he lived in British India. Born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) on May7, 1861 Tagore breathed his last at the ripe old age of eighty on August 7, 1941. Tagore was many things rolled into one – a poet, a short story writer, a novelist, a music composer, a creator of what we today call Rabindra Sangeet, a playwright and an educationist who successfully established Viswabharathi University at Shanti Niketan. Rabindranath Tagore is perhaps the most celebrated writer in Bengali in British India’s who was awarded Nobel prize for literature in 1930, first of its kind, not just in India then, but in the whole of Asia. ![]() Gora, A novel in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore: Telugu Translation by Sivasankara Swamy (Tallavajjhala Sivasankara Sastry) Sahitya Academy, New Delhi, 3rd edition 2002 First published in 1961 ![]()
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