Rabindranath Tagore: A poet novelist musician and playwright.



Endless Time – a poem by Rabindranath Tagore
Time is endless in thy hands, my lord.
There is none to count thy minutes.

Days and nights pass and ages bloom and fade like flowers.
Thou knowest how to wait.

Thy centuries follow each other perfecting a small wild flower.

We have no time to lose,
and having no time we must scramble for a chance.
We are too poor to be late.

And thus it is that time goes by
while I give it to every querulous man who claims it,
and thine altar is empty of all offerings to the last.

At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate be shut;
but I find that yet there is time.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Have anyone ever visualised a classroom to be a matchbox? The students as the matchsticks? Matchsticks tightly locked in a precise space of a box.
A great Indian did. He never went to a school because of this type of visualization. But proved to the world that education does not merely mean book knowledge but the power within. This great Indian was none other but the great nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

Rabindranath Tagore, was born in 1861, as the 13 child and the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, who was the leader of the Brahmo samaj. Samaj means a sect or a cult. This Brahmo samaj was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads.

Rabindranath Tagore was given education by private teachers at home.All that he was interested in, was literature. At the age of seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling. But still then he left his studies and returned back to Bengal.
From time to time he participated in the Indian nationalist movement, though in his own non-sentimental and visionary way; and Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend.

Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British policies in India. In protest of the Jalianwala Bagh massacare, Tagore returned his honour of knighthood.
He was freedom fighter too. but his weapon was his pen. His writing was aginst the british, about the condition of India. For the world he became the voice of India’s spiritual heritage; and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a great living institution.

Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first of all a poet.He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education.

Rabindranath Tagore died on August 7, 1941.

Novels and Novellas written by Rabindranath Tagore

• Chaturanga
• Shesher Kobita
• Char Odhay
• Noukadubi
• Ghare Baire

Dramas and Plays written by Rabindranath Tagore

• Valmiki Pratibha – The Genius of Valmiki
• Dak Ghar – The Post Office
• Chandalika – Untouchable Girl
• Shyama
• Visarjan – The Sacrifice
• Raja – The King of the Dark Chamber
• Achalayatan – The Immovable
• Muktadhara – The Waterfall
• Raktakaravi – Red Oleanders

These dramas and plays were termed as “Rabindra nritya natya”.



Fictions written by Tagore

• Nastanirh -The Broken Nest
• Gora – Fair-Faced
• Yogayog – Crosscurrents

Memoirs by Tagore

• Jivansmriti – My Reminiscences
• Chhelebela – My Boyhood Days

Work of Rabindranath Tagore got translated in english and other languages here are few of the famous titles of translated work.

• Chitra
• Creative Unity
• The Crescent Moon
• Fireflies
• Fruit-Gathering
• The Fugitive
• The Gardener
• Gitanjali: Song Offerings
• Glimpses of Bengal
• The Home and the World
• The Hungry Stones and other stories
• I Won’t Let you Go: Selected Poems
• The Lover of God
• My Boyhood Days
• My Reminiscences
• Nationalism
• The Post Office
• Sadhana: The Realisation of Life
• Selected Letters
• Selected Poems
• Selected Short Stories
• Songs of Kabir
• Stray Birds

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